Remarks on the Harvard triennial.

  • Dabney, J. P. (Jonathan Peele), 1793-1868.
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[1847]
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    ed therein a second time by a mere typographical error in our lucubrations. The person was a merchant of Salem, his na- tive place, to the very eve of the Revolution. 1722. John Mountfort.* 1785. This ju.vta blunder is the coun- terpart of the former in extent {forty years) ; but what could have misled this time, no conjectural skill of ours is deep e- nough to say. The person was of Boston, son of John and Mary M. City Rec. 1687. Josiah Dwight.* 1726. The date not of his death exactly, but only of the close of his first ministry. He was son of Timothy D. of Dedham ; first minister of Woodstock, Ct. [1690-1726], and the same of Dedham, west parish, [1735- '42]. He returned to W. and died about seven or eight years after. (Boston News-letter.) An error of perhaps twenty- two years. 1650. John Whiting.* 1709. J. W. was the first minister of the south ch. of Hartford, Ct. ; and died a full twenty years pri- or to the above. (Hartford Prob. Rec.) So writes a friend and critically exact antiquary, familiar with the archives of every town and county along the shore of the Connecticut. 1762. Isaac Winslow.* 1819. The revisers, it is plain, thought this to be Dr. Jsaac W. of Marshfield, long a well-known physician on the South-shore, and youngest son of Gen. John W. But they were entirely at fault. The true Isaac, a merchant of Boston, of the Sandemanian faith, and politically a loyalist, died in B. very near thirty years earlier. (Pr.L. from the family.) This too, we can see, is to be traced to the following too close (without seeking further) in the track of a published and early error of our own. 1727. Isaac Winslow.* 1738. The father of the above. He died under British protection at New-York, just about the middle of the revolutionary war. (See certain newspapers.) This faux^pas is very nearly or quite of the forty years' stamp. Whence that 1738 was derived, we are entirely puzzled to divine. 1705. John Wilson.* 1772. This is the strongest case, numeri- cally (i. e. counting time) in our whole series. We marvel whom the revisers thought they had got here. Had his life been prolonged as the above implies, he would have been, with scarcely an exception, the oldest living graduate. But the simple fact is,—J. W., a native of Braintree, settled at or preaching in Swanzey, Bristol co. was carried off by a rapid fever, when less than ten years out of college.—Letter of Hon. Judge Seicall, contemporary with the event.