15. The British Officers in prison were removed to [Pittsfield.]1

16. Snow. Only one in the family went to Church. 18. Attended at the Morning Star Lodge and Supped.

20. My Commission of Justice of Peace renewed, with the addition of Justice of the Quorum. By Gov. Strong. Two of Amasa Paine, Esqr's daughters of Troy visited

us.

23. Went to Chh. in the forenoon.

24. Spent the Evening with Judge Bangs.

25. Went to the bank.

27. Anne Sheldon went to stay a week or two with Mr. Levi Lincoln, jun".

30. Went to Chh. twice.

31. Mrs. Thomas and my Grand daughter went to Lancaster.

District Court, in Boston, and the younger Bigelow was bound over to the May term of the Circuit Court. Before the opening of the term, there had been a general exchange of prisoners; and the matter was evidently dropped.

In 1830, Mr. Stephen Salisbury, 2nd, met and travelled in Italy, with Captain Arthur Carter, who declared that no American failed in his duty to his country, by aiding in their escape.

In March, they were again removed to the Philadelphia Penitentiary, from which Duvall and Morris, with sixteen others, escaped 22 April. The greater part of them were recaptured, but almost at the same time, some of the American officers were released on parole, with a commission to inform the American government that the twenty-three prisoners sent to England had not been brought to trial, but remained on the ordinary footing of prisoners of war, which led to the dismissal, on parole, of all officers on both sides.

2 The term "quorum," as used in commissions of justices of the peace, and others, received its name from the words of the commission, "quorum A. B. unum esse volumus," (of whom' we will that A. B. be one), and signified originally certain individuals, selected for their ability and prudence, among several holding the same office, without whom the remainder could not act.

Note. 30th day of this month, I was 65 years of age, being born Jan. 19th old Stile 1749.

February, 1814.

1. Mrs. Thomas, my grand daughter Mary Rebecca returned from Lancaster, with my Brother's wife who came on a visit.

3. This day became Bondsman for Dr. Bancroft to the Judge of Probate 110,000 dollars, for his the Dr's fulfilling the duties of Executor on the Estates of Clarke and Samuel Chandler1 deceased.

1 Clark Chandler, the son of John Chandler the Refugee, and Dorothy Paine Chandler, was for a time a clerk in the office of the register of probate; was joint register with Timothy Paine from 1766 to 1774; and town clerk from 1768 to 1775. In 1774, while he was town clerk, the instructions of the town to Joshua Bigelow, its representative in the General Court, requiring him, among other things, to take a decided stand against the objectionable acts of Parliament, were vehemently opposed by the royalists, who petitioned for a special meeting, in the hope of securing

4.

Finished shelling Indian Corn which I raised this year. the quantity shelled 120 bushels of good sound corn. Settled my Book with Dr. Bancroft. Was yesterday seized by the Rheumatism or rather Hip gout-but not violently-confined with it all day. Mr. Williams came up from Boston.

5. Hip gout better-But confined all day. Mr. Williams returned to Boston.

6. Did not go to Church-Mr. Soper came up from Boston on his way to Albany.

8. Anne Sheldon came home yesterday-spent the day-returned at Night. Charles's Brother died-Charles went to Spencer.

9. Meeting of the Singers of both the religious Societies at the North Meeting house-they walked in procession about 50-a Sermon by Dr. Bancroft. Dr. Austin' attended

a reconsideration of the resolutions. Failing in this they presented a loyal protest against them, signed by fifty-two inhabitants, which was also refused by the town, whereupon Mr. Chandler, who was one of the signers, secretly, and without authority, copied the protest upon the records, and also sent a copy to Boston, which was published in two of the newspapers. This so enraged the strong Whig majority, that in a special town meeting it was voted, "that the Town Clerk do, in the presence of the town, Obliterate, Erase, or otherwise deface the said recorded protest, and the names thereunto subscribed, so that it may become utterly illegible and unintelligible"; and he was forced, in open town meeting, not only to draw his pen through the records, but to dip his fingers in the ink and blot out the page.

In June, 1775, Mr. Chandler went to Nova Scotia, and on his return, in September, surrendered himself as a Tory. He was imprisoned by the committee on suspicion of having held intercourse with the enemy, but was released on parole in December, and permitted to live in Lancaster. He afterwards had a store at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets.

Mr. Chandler never married. He was extremely eccentric in his manner and dress, always wearing bright red small-clothes, and was the subject of the jeers and derision of those around him, which he rarely failed to repay with their full value.

[Born, Worcester, 1 December, 1743.

Died, Worcester, 1 June, 1804.]

1 Samuel Austin, the son of Samuel and Lydia Walcut Austin, of New Haven, Conn., enlisted in the Continental army soon after the outbreak of the Revolution, at the age of fifteen, as a substitute for his father, and served in New York until

but did not perform any part in the Exercises. My brother's wife went home with the post rider to Lancaster.

13. Went to Chh. this afternoon.

18. Mr. Soper came from Albany on his return to Boston.

the British took possession of the city. For the next two or three years his time was divided between school-teaching and military service, until, when he was twenty, he decided to enter a profession. The law was his first choice, and he began his studies with Judge Charles Chauncy, in New Haven; but finding that he required a higher classical education, he entered the sophomore class at Yale, in 1781, and was graduated in 1784. Abandoning the law, he prepared for the ministry with Rev. Jonathan Edwards. While he was a candidate, he was principal of an academy in Norwich. A decided Calvinist, he declined two calls during this period,-to the church in Hampton, Conn., and to become the colleague of Dr. Livingston, the minister of the Middle Dutch Church in New York-because he required a stricter creed than that of either society. In 1786 he became the minister of the church in Fair Haven, in the city of New Haven, but strong disapprobation of the so-called "half-way covenant caused him to ask for dismission at the end of three years, and he accepted a call to the First Church in Worcester, which had then been without a settled minister for six years. Immediately after his installation, 29 September, 1790, he began to give new vigor to the doctrinal basis of the church, and a new creed and covenant were adopted, whereby its orthodoxy was conformed to the strictest type.

In 1815 Dr. Austin accepted the presidency of the University of Vermont, which had been closed for three years by the war, and its buildings occupied as barracks. He however retained his pastoral connection in Worcester, on account of a civil process which had been commenced in his name against the town, for the recovery of lands, and did not receive his dismission until December, 1818. His untiring and steady labors in trying to bring the college back to its old standing greatly impaired his health, and feeling that he could not realize his expectations of usefulness to the institution, he resigned in 1821.

In 1822 he became the minister of a small and poor society in Newport, R. I., which had formerly been under Rev. Samuel Hopkins, giving to it his services; but increasing infirmities compelled him to retire, and he returned to Worcester in 1826. He afterwards preached in Millbury for a time. The death of his nephew and adopted son, with whom he lived, soon after, physical weakness and pecuniary losses, brought on mental troubles, and for the four years preceding his death he was a religious monomaniac.

Dr. Austin was undoubtedly the ablest and most distinguished of all the ministers who have occupied the pulpit of the First Parish. He devoted himself largely to

19.

Anne Sheldon returned home from Mr. Lincoln'swhere she staid 3 weeks.

21. Had a turn of the Colic.

23. Ball this Evening. My Granddaughter Mary Rebecca went to it. Anne Sheldon went again to Mr. Levi Lincoln, junts.

24. Dined with a number of others with Wm. Stedman, Esq.

25. Anne Sheldon returned home.

27. Went to Chh. in the forenoon. Mrs. T. used the Coach-having used the Sleigh weeks past.

28. Let the place in Boylston for 3 years.

A very particular and extraordinary kind of Fever has appeared this and the last year. It has prevailed in all parts of the United States-but not generally excepting in some places-Many have died and were carried off very soon after being taken ill-often in 3 days. In several instances the greatest part of a family young and old

the investigation of theological questions, and was often called to sit in councils on difficult cases. A man of strong convictions, he preached with great freedom on public affairs, and his fast day sermons especially, were noted, and often gave offence. One, preached at the beginning of the war, in July, 1812, caused great excitement, and he published it with the inscription on the title page: "Published from the press by the desire of some who heard it and liked it; by the desire of some who heard it and did not like it; and by the desire of others who did not hear it, but imagine they should not have liked it if they had." In 1808, he collected and published, at Worcester, the first complete edition of the works of the elder President Edwards, in eight volumes.

He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Missionary Society; was active in originating the General Association of Massachusetts; was a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; and was one of the projectors of and a contributor to the "Panoplist." He received the degree of D.D. from Williams, in 1807. Dr Austin married, in 1788, Jerusha, daughter of Dr. Samuel Hopkins of Hadley, Mass.

[Born, New Haven, 7 November, 1760.

Died Glastonbury, Conn., 4 December, 1830.]