MRS. WILLETT.-Rev. John Bishop, at "Stamford, 2d mo. 11, 1682," wrote to Rev. Dr. Increase Mather: "My wife that was Mrs. Willet desires kind salutations ;" and again, at "Stamford, 12, 9, 1686-7," he wrote to Dr. Mather: "My kind respects to Mr. John Cotton, yo nephew, who married my neece, Anne Lake. The Lord's blessing be upon their match." Whose daughter and widow was " Mrs. Willet?" Anne Lake was daughter to Thomas Lake by his wife Mary, daughter of Gov. Stephen Goodyear, of New Haven Colony. Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., was son of Rev. Seaborn Cotton, and nephew of Dr. Mather's wife. After his death she-Anne Lake Cotton -became the second wife of Rev. Dr. Mather, and her grave is still legible in the Brookline burial-ground. How was she a "neece" to Rev. John Bishop, of Stamford? Perhaps a Connecticut antiquary will explain it. WASHINGTON MASONIC MEDALS.-What number of masonic medals have been struck in honor of Washington, their date and history? S. H. BOOKS DEDICATED TO WASHINGTON--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the number of books dedicated to Washington, their dates and titles? H. THE GAME OF BOSTON.-"Manuel des jeux de Boston, Boston de Fontainebleau, Boston de L'Orient, Boston Anglais, Cribbage, Vendome et Casino, par Van Tenac et Delanone." Such is the title of a little pamphlet, published in Paris, giving an account of the different varieties of the game known as Boston. Undoubtedly it is the one first mentioned that gives the name to the others. In its description of this game, it says that, "it is American in its origin, and dates from the war of Independence, taking the place of whist, which at that time was the popular game in the New World." Cannot some of your readers give us a more definite account of its history? QUERIST. ROBERT CUSHMAN'S SERMON.-Vol. ii., pp. 61, 213, 343, contains an account of that famous sermon-the first delivered in America, that was printed. Ten editions are described in that article. The eleventh edition was published by J. E. D. Comstock, N. Y. City, 1858, containing, besides that sermon, some additional matter. It is now ascertained that a copy of the second edition, published in Boston in 1724, is owned by the Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass. The writer wishes to obtain a copy of the edition of that sermon published in Boston in 1815, by T. G. Bangs, printer. Does any one know HENRY W. CUSHMAN. where it can be found? REPLIES. FIRST LAWYER IN ST. JOHNSBURY. Vr. (vol. iii., p. 286).-Your correspondent, "P. H. W.," says, in his obituary notice of Judge Paddock, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., that, "he was the first lawyer who made that place a permanent residence." This statement, I am confident, is a mistake. A gentleman by the name of Josias Lyndon Arnold, was a resident lawyer there many years previously, though but for a few years, as he died young. His father was Doctor Jonathan Arnold, who emigrated from the State of Rhode Island, and was one of the early settlers of that town. By reference to an old account-book of my father's, I find a charge against Doctor Arnold, dated April 18, 1787. The County of Orange extended, at that time, to the north line of the State, and the courts were held in this town. In 1801, May 2d, there is a credit on my father's books for a payment received of his executor. He amused himself occasionally, I know not how often, in paying court to the muses. I have a short article-four stanzas-of his writing, which I copied from a periodical in the year 1800. His nom de plume was "A. L. J." He received his collegiate education at Dartmouth College, and graduated in the year 1788. Where his professional education was acquired I am not informed. He married a Miss Perkins, of Connecticut, a beautiful woman, talented, and well educated. Her second marriage was with Charles Marsh, Esquire, of Woodstock, an eminent lawyer of Vermont. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1786. Of course Mr. Marsh and Mr. Arnold were students at the same time, although not in the same class. When they attended the courts in this town, they were considered as intimate friends. Mrs. Marsh was the mother of the Hon. George B. Marsh, late the highly respected minister of the United States at Constantinople. Hal's "Romance of Western History " (Cincinnati, 1857), p. 365. H. H. AMERICAN COINS.--E. W. & P. H. W. ask about the "Washington and Independence" cent, and the Nova Constellatio" cent. These were not struck by government, the first regular coinage An account of these tokens being that of 1793. "Numismatic will be found in Dickeson's Manual," published by Lippincott, Philadelphia. QUEEN ANNE'S PLATE (vol. iii., p. 372).—In a "Historical sketch of the Borough of Chester," Penn., recently published by Wm. Whitehead, I following, in reference to the Communion Service of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of that place: J. S. F. "Among the venerable relics of olden time are two chalices and their salvers, or plates, the Anne, the other by the Hon. Sir Jefferey Jeffries. one presented to the congregation by Queen The pieces are of very pure silver, but of workmanship somewhat rude, in comparison with the refined skill of our own time. The chalices bear the marks of the workman's hammer, and appear to have received their polish principally by long and frequent handling. The chalice presented by the Queen has engraven upon it, Anna Reginæ. The time at which these pieces were presented is not certainly known, but it must have been prior to 1702, as they were used at the first communion of the church. They are still regularly used." MAPLE SUGAR (vol. iii., p. 373, vol. iv., p. 20). One of Dr. Arnold's daughters, the eldest, I-The earliest reference to what is supposed to believe, married a gentleman of Rhode Island, by the name of Burrill, a lawyer of note. I think he was, at one time, a representative in Congress. Of this, however, I would not be positive. Another of Dr. Arnold's daughters, named Nabby or Abigail, married Joseph Dow, Esq., who resided in St. Johnsbury a short time as a lawyer. He was postmaster in that town for a limited period, while I had charge of the postoffice in this town. A son of Dr. Arnold, by a second marriage, named Hastings, who was quite a child when his father died, was brought up by his mother, who married a Mr. Ladd, of Haverhill, N. H. He probably had an additional name, as his mother's maiden name was Hastings. I am informed that he was, some years since, Governor of Rhode Island. D. J. JOE DAVIESS COUNTY.--An anecdote respecting the naming of this county will be found in be the maple tree, is in "Relation" for 1634, c. 7, "Of the food of the Indians," wherein mention is made of a certain tree they call the Michtan, the bark of which they split in the spring, in order to extract from it a sap, sweet like honey or sugar. Le Clercq, in his "Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspessé," Paris, 1691, pp. 124, 125, mentions that the Indians formed the thickened syrup into small loaves of sugar, some of which were sent to France as a curiosity. Beverly, "Hist. of Virginia,” book ii., p. 21, gives an account of the sugar tree, and of the mode of making the sugar. Writing about the year 1700, he says: "Though this Discovery has not been made by the English above Twelve or Fourteen years; yet it has been known among the Indians longer than any one now living can remember." On p. 22, he adds: "Peter Martyr mentions a Tree that yields the like sap, but without any description." Lafitau, "Moeurs des Sauvages, ii., 154, describes the mode of manufacturing the 66 sugar by the Indians, and gives an illustrative engraving of the process. He says: "the French learned how to make it from Indian women." A writer in 2d "Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.," viii., 252, is of opinion that the method of making maple sugar has been learned from the aborigines. Carver, Travels," London, 1788, pp. 262-496, speaks of the juice of the maple tree, "from which the Indians, by boiling, make very good sugar." Charlevoix, on the contrary, says the Indians learned to make the sugar from the French, though very probably they always made use of the sap, which they boiled into a syrup to thicken it-Journal Historique," lett. 7. That the Indians had utensils sufficient for the evaporation of the maple sap, is evident from "Kalr's Travels, ii., 41. E. B. O'C. Another Reply. The earlier notices, by New England writers, of the maple make no allusion to the manufacture of sugar from it by the natives, leaving us to infer that the maple sugar was not then made. The following poetical description of the "Trees of New England," written in 1639, alludes to the maple, but not to its saccharine qualities: "Trees, both in hills and plains in plenty be, The long-lived Oak, and mournful Cypress tree; wasps; The water-spungy Alder, good for nought, Small Eldern, by Indian flitchers sought; The knotty Maple, pallid Birch, Hawthorns, The horn-bound tree that to be cloven scorns, Which from the tender vine oft takes his spouse, Who twines embracing arms about his boughs. Within this Indian orchard fruits be some, The ruddy Cherry, and the jetty Plum; Snake murthering Hazel, with sweet Saxonphrage, Whose spurs in beer allays hot fever's rage; The dear Shumack, with much more trees there be, That are both good to use, and rare to see." In "Our Forefathers' Song," written about the same period, occur the following lines: For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips, Of pumpkins, and parsnips, and walnut-tree chips." The evidence of the foregoing quotations from the poetry of the Pilgrims, is only negative, but it may be significant. S. H. THE INDIAN PRINTER (vol. iv. p. 19).-"S. L. B." will find full information on the subject of his inquiry in Francis' "Life of John Eliot," being vol. v. of Sparks' "Amer. Biography." E. B. O'C. BOOKS PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRADFORD (vol. iii. pp. 173, 217, 255).—In the catalogue of the Bradford imprints, there is an omission of the following book, written by Daniel Leeds, viz: NEWS OF A TRUMPET | Sounding in the WILDERNESS, or, | The Quakers Antient Testimony Revived. | Examined and Compared with itself, and also with their New Doctrine. | Whereby the Ignorant may learn Wisdom, and the Wise advance in Understandings. | Collected with Diligence, and carefully cited from their Antient and Later Writings, and Recommended to the Serious Reading and Consideration of all Enquiring Christians, by Daniel Leeds. Prov. xxvii. v. 5: Open Rebuke is better than secret Love. | Printed and Sold by William Bradford at the Bible in New York, 1697. This rare volume contains 151 pages, and consists chiefly of extracts from the early Quaker authors. In 1699, another book was published by the same author, under a somewhat similar title (vide vol iii. p. 175). It may have been a second edition of the one now spoken of. H. G. J. PHILADEDPHIA. PAINTED POST.-The query of your correspondent, W., in last number of Historical Magazine, relating to PAINTED POST, may, perhaps, be in part answered by the following extract from "Historical Collections of the State of New York," by John W. Barber and Henry Howe, printed in New York, 1846, p. 530: "The celebrated 'painted post,' from which the town of Painted Post derived its name, forThere merly stood upon the bank of the river. have been various stories in relation to its origin. The following account, taken from the narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Gen. Freegift Patchin, who was taken prisoner by a party of Indians under Brant, during the Revolution, is probably correct. Near this we found the famous PAINTED POST, which is now known over the whole continent to those conversant with the early history of our country, the origin of which is as follows: Whether it was in the Revolution, or in the Dunmore battles with the Indians, which commenced in Virginia, or in the French war, I do not know, an in battle, killed and took prisoners to the numIndian chief, on this spot, had been victorious ber of about 60. This event he celebrated by causing a tree to be taken from the forest and hewed four square, painted red, and the number he killed, which was 28, represented across the post in black paint, without any heads; but those he took prisoners, which was 30, were represented with heads on, in black paint, as the others. This post he erected, and thus handed of a good man; he was noble, kind and benevodown to posterity an account that here a bat-lent, to a fault-ever faithful to his friends; in tle was fought, but by whom, and who the sufferers were, is covered in darkness, except that it was between the whites and Indians.'” The town stands at the confluence of the three main branches of the Tioga, or Chemung Rivers. S. N. Obituary. fact, he was really an Indian at heart. Poor John! we trust that he has gone to the isles of the blest. We spread our mantle of charity and forget his shortcomings, while we shall ever keep him in memory for his many benevolent acts, and strive to emulate his virtues." 66 AT Washington, D. C., Nov. 30, RUFUS DAWES, in the 56th year of his age. He was son of the late Judge Thomas Dawes of Boston, in which city he was born, Jan. 26, 1803. He entered "DE JIH NON DA WEH HOH, an exile from Harvard in 1820, but was refused a degree in Buffalo Reservation," writes to the "Buffalo consequence of some entanglement in a college Morning Express," under date of Cattaraugus disturbance, of which he appears afterward to Reservation, Nov. 28, as follows: "Yesterday have been acquitted. The occasion, however, another of the Buffalo exiles at Cattaraugus was gave rise to his first published poem, a satire on added to the number of those that have gone to the college faculty. He studied law with Wilthe fair hunting-grounds. JOHN JEMISON is no liam Sullivan, but never practised the profession. more! He was a descendant of the noted He contributed to the "United States Literary 'White Woman,' Mary Jemison, whose dust Gazette" at Cambridge; afterward conducted reposes within the limits of your city, at the "The Emerald," a weekly paper at Baltimore; 'Mission Burying-ground,' on the Buffalo Reser-published in 1830 "The Valley of the Nashaway, vation. John was the third son of the White and other Poems;" in 1839, Geraldine," Woman's' eldest son, Thomas, by his last wife. "Athenia of Damascus," etc. Of late years he Of Thomas' family, by the last wife, there were was employed in one of the departments at eight children only, whom I had known-five Washington. Thirty years ago he married a sons and three daughters. Of these sons, one daughter of Judge Cranch. (Jacob) was a physician, and a graduate of the Fairfield Medical College, and died in the naval service of his country, on the Mediterranean sea. I am informed that John died of injuries received a few days since, while at work on the lower part of this Reservation among saw logs; that his ribs were fractured, and the consequent inflamation resulted in his death. Of the family, only three survive him-his brother, George Jemison, and his sisters, Mrs. Seneca White and Mrs. John Seneca, the latter now a widow. John resided on the Buffalo Reserve till about 1845, when he removed to Cattaraugus. He owned a farm at and in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs, and was at one time considered, among his Indian brethren, one of their men of wealth and influence. But the political agitation of 1838 among his people, which was brought upon them by the white men, who were engaged in making a treaty, at once checked his prosperity, and the arts, machinations and schemes, and other appliances of these designing men, charmed, flattered, corrupted, and finally ruined the prospects of this noble man. Unfortunately for him, he was at that time a man of wealth and influence, because it was this class of men whom the white men first attacked in their nefarious schemes; these being secured, the rest of the nation would become an easy prey. But they succeeded fully in debasing the man. John had every quality MME. CATHARINE BENOIST died at St. Louis December 9. She was the daughter of Charles Sanguinet and a granddaughter of Dr. Conde, a surgeon of the French army, who came to St. Louis in 1755, from Fort Chartres, after the treaty of that year between France and England, by which the country east of the Mississippi was ceded to England, and all that west of it to France. She was one of the original settlers of St. Louis, and saw it grow from a little village to its present size. Her acquaintance with the events of the American and French revolutions was most intimate, from opportunities of intercourse which she had with some of the actors in each. HON. CHARLES RANDALL, of Warren, Rhode Island, died of apoplexy, Dec. 11. He was born in Sharon, Mass., in 1806, and for many years was publisher of the "Northern Star" newspaper. In 1849, he was messenger to carry the vote of the State for Gen. Taylor, as President to Washington. He had also been a Senator in the General Assembly of Rhode Island, and at the time of his death, was President of the Town Council of Warren. DANA P. COLBURN, Principal of the Normal School at Bristol, R. I., was thrown from a buggy and killed, on the 14th of December. He was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1822. His early education was very meagre; but by perseverance he qualified himself to teach a common school. He subsequently graduated at the Bridgewater Normal School, and became an assistant teacher in it. In 1852, he went to Providence to assist Prof. Greene, and in 1855 was appointed Principal of the State Normal School. He was the author of several text books, the most important of which are his "Common School Arithmetic," and "Arithmetic and its Applications." upon the Supreme Court, in session at that place. This intelligence will fill many hearts with deep regret and sorrow. "Timothy Jenkins was a native of Barre, in the State of Massachusetts, where a large number of his kindred still reside. About thirty-five years since, he emigrated to central New York, and took up his residence at Oneida Castle, a little village on the western border of the town of Vernon, twenty-six miles from Utica, and entered upon the practice of the law. Some years afterward he was appointed, by Governor Marcy, attorney for the Oneida Indians, and Burchard, in 1839. held the place till superseded by Mr. Nathan "REV. TIMOTHY M. COOLEY, of East Granville, Mass., died December 14, at the age of 87 years. "Two years afterward he became district atBorn in Granville during the Revolution (1774), torney of Oneida County, and in 1844 was electhe graduated and studied divinity at Yale Col-ed to Congress from that district. He was at lege, and preached his first sermon in Granville, this time known as a democrat of the Old on the 20th of April, 1795, and was settled as Hunker' school, but voted with the whigs pastor there Feb. 3, 1796. This relation he against the tariff of 1846, and also for the Wilactively and uninterruptedly maintained until mot Proviso. His constituents ratified his course, 1854, a period of 58 years, when he preached his reëlecting him that fall over O. B. Matteson, farewell sermon."-Times. although the whig candidate for governor, Mr. Young, had a large majority in the county. Ar Ballston, Dec. 16, LEBBEUS BOOTH, Esq., aged about 70 years. "In 1850 he was placed in nomination, and "Mr. Booth was a graduate of Union College, reelection. The influence of that individual in defeated Mr. O. B. Matteson, then a candidate for and educated for the ministry, at Princeton; but his health failing, he did not complete his theo-vented his renomination, and he has not since the Democratic County Convention in 1852, prelogical studies, and turned his attention to the that time held any public station. He united higher branches of teaching. He was the second with the republican party in 1855, and was their Principal of the Albany Female Academy for several years. In 1824 he established at Balls- candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals in ton a seminary for young ladies, which he con1857. Last year he received a flattering vote ducted with eminent success for many years, Convention. It had been contemplated by his for the gubernatorial nomination in the State and where a very large number of the most in- friends to present his name in September last for telligent ladies, now in middle life, were educated. the judgeship of the Court of Appeals, but this Mr. Booth was a well-educated, upright, highminded and honorable man. He commanded the was anticipated by his peremptory declination. universal respect of the community in which he with the first in his profession. Several of the "As a lawyer and jurist, Mr. Jenkins stood lived, and exemplified in his life and deportment ablest legal gentlemen in this city and State proall the virtues of the true and devout Christian." secuted their studies in his office. He was not - Albany Journal. an orator, as the term is generally understood, but his speeches were always logical, sensible and to the point. His habits were simple and unaffected; his character was unblemished; and he enjoyed a wide popularity in the section of the State where he was known. THE REV. MATTHEW B. HOPE, Professor of Belles Lettres in Princeton College, died suddenly, on Saturday evening, Dec. 17, from disease of the heart. Prof. Hope was appointed to the position which he held in the college in the year 1847. He was a man of profound learning, and exerted a happy influence over the institution of learning in which he held so distinguished a position. He was a graceful writer, and an effective and popular preacher. "In his religious convictions, Mr. Jenkins was earnest and decided, and took a prominent part in the formation of a Unitarian society at Vernon, and the erection of a meeting-house. He took a deep interest in the Sunday-school, at times instructing a class of pupils, and was liberal in the support of the denomination. His death, coming unexpectedly, while engaged in professional duties, leaves a void which will not "WE learn by telegraph," says the "Evening |