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he would mortgage his services. He was redeemed by a Mr. Savage of Durham, Pennsylvania, owner of some ironworks, who employed him as a worker in his smelting house. Eesolute, and ambitions of gaining the appi-obation of all around him, he persevered without complaint, through the unwonted toil imposed on him, until Mr. Savage discovered his intelli- gence, education, and talents, and made him a clerk in his office. There he was soon esteemed for his correct deportment, and admired for clearness of perception and soundness of judgment. After the death of Mr. Savage he married his widow, and thus became sole owner of a large pro- perty. He was elected, in 1764, to the Provincial Assembly at Philadelphia, and for five years took a prominent part in its deliberations. He was afterwards made judge of the County Court and colonel of militia. In 1775 ^^ '^^s again returned to the Assembly, became one of the Com- mittee of Safety, the virtual executive, and continued to exercise a powerful and salutary influence until the summer of 1776, when he became a member of the Con- tinental Congress, and endorsed with his signature to the Declaration of Independ- ence, the principles of liberty he had so boldly advocated. In the spring of 1777, after having successfully negotiated a treaty with some of the Indian tribes, he retired from Congress and from public life to Delaware, where he died 23rd February 1781, aged about 65. 37*

Taylor, Jeremy, Bishop of Down and Connor, one of the greatest theologians and writers of his age, was born at Cam- bridge, 15th August 1613. He accom- panied Charles I. on some of his campaigns. After undergoing hardships and imprison- ments at the hands of the Parliamentary party, he was, in 1658, induced by some of his fri'^nds to seek a retreat in Ireland. Sir "William Petty procured him a farm on advantageous terms, and gave him in- troductions to persons of influence ; Crom- well granted him a pa-ssport and protection for himself and his family ; and in June 1658, he settled near Kilulta, eight miles from Lisburn. There, in a half-ruined church, he occasionally preached to a small congregation of royalists. According to tradition, it was his wont occasionally to retire to Rams Island, in Lough Neagh, for study and devotion. Poor as he was, this is said to have been the happiest period of his life, as he had abundant leisure for daily if not hourly devotions and literary composition. Upon one occasion, in the dead of winter, he was brought before the Privy Council in Dublin, on a charge of 518

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using the sign of the cross in baptism. J ust before the Restoration he proceeded to England, and in August 1660 was ap- pointed Bishop of Down and Connor, and was shortly afterwards elected Vice-Chan- cellor of the University of Dublin. In February 1661 he was made a member of the Privy Council, and in April was en- trusted with the administration of the small adjacent see of Dromore. The dis- organized condition of his see taxed all his energies. For the University he revised the statutes, settled rules for the confer- ring of degrees, appointed lecturers, and otherwise contributed to forward its inte- rests and increase its reputation. Bishop Taylor died at Lisburn, 13th August 1667, aged 53, and his remains were interred in the cathedral at Dromore, to which he had been a liberal benefactor. His second wife, Joanna, daughter of his friend and patron, Charles I., survived him some years. One of his daughters married Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin. A monument to his memory was erected by Bishop Mant in Lisburn church in 1 82 1. A list of his works occupies nearly four pages of AUibone. John Forster says : " From the little I have yet read, I am strongly inclined to think this said Jeremy is the most completely eloquent writer iu our language. There is a most manly and graceful ease and freedom in his composition, while a strong intellect is working logically through every paragraph, while all manner of beautiful images fall in as by felicitous accident." Cotton says : " Of his character and talents it is needless to speak. His works have been long before the world, and have proved their author to have been one of the best of men, and one of the most shining lights of our church." '* "^ 32=t

Taylor, Thomas, M.D., a botanist of some note,stated to have been an Irishman, was born near the end of the i8th cen- tury. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1807, took his medical degree in 1 8 14, and became attached to some of the Dublin hospitals. He exhibited a marked predilection for the study of nature, and in his excursions into the County of Wicklow, with his friends Dr. Whitly Stokes and Mr. Mackay, evinced those talents that afterwards dis- tinguished him. He was the joint author, with Sir William J. Hooker, of the Mus- cologia Britannica (18 18), and contributed the articles " Mosses " and " Ferns " to Mackay's Flora Hibernica. He added a new genus to the order Hepaticse, and a good many uudescribed species in the order of Lichens. He also gave to