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Rh more on returning to England in 1643. In 1645 the general court, not having heard from the pro- prietor for more than a year, constituted a provis- ional government, making Vines deputy - gover- nor, with authority to take possession of the prop- erty of Gorges and to pay his debts. The rival claims to the proprietorship of the province raised by Alexander Rigby, a lawyer from England, who belonged to the party of parliament, caused Vines such trouble that before the close of 1645 he re- signed his office and returned to England. Soon afterward he settled in Barbadoes, where he be- came a planter and practised his profession.

VINGUT, Francisco Javier, educator, b. in Cuba in 1823. He came to the United States about 1848, and for many years was professor of the Spanish language and literature in the University of the city of New York. He edited papers called "La Aurora" and "La Indiana" in Spanish and Eng- lish, and published grammars and phrase-books for learning the Spanish. English, and French lan- guages. — His wife, Gertrude, author, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., about 1830, was a daughter of Sum- ner L. Fairfield, the poet. Her first work was " Irene, or the Autobiography of an Artist's Daugh- ter " (Boston, 1854). She edited " Gems of Span- ish Poetry," in conjunction with her husband (New York, 1855), and afterward published two novels entitled " Madeline " and " Naomi Torrente : the History of a Woman " (1864).

VINING, John, senator, b. in Dover. Del., 23 Dec, 1758 ; d. there in February, 1802. He was a member of the Continental congress from 1784 till 1786, and was elected to the 1st Federal congress as the only representative from Delaware, and re- elected for another term, serving from 6 May, 1789, till 2 March, 1793. He was then sent to the U. S. senate, taking his seat on 2 Dec, 1793, and serving till 6 March, 1798, when he resigned.

VINTON, Frederic, bibliographer, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 9 Oct., 1817. He was graduated at Am- herst in 1837, and studied theology at Andover and New Haven, but was never ordained. Having trained himself in a private library during five years, he entered the service of the Boston public library in 1856 as first assistant. He entered the new building on Boylston street, with the 30,000 volumes that had been given by Joshua Bates, and organized the arrangement that now exists. He assisted in preparing the " Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall" (1861) and the "First Supplement" to it (1866). He removed to Wash- ington, in January, 1865, to become first assistant in the library of congress, and held the post eight years. He there prepared six annual supplements to the " Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress " and the " Index of Subjects " (2 vols., Washington, 1869). In 1873 he became librarian of Princeton college, of whose library he printed the " Subject Catalogue " (New York, 1884).

VINTON, Frederick Porter, painter, b. in Bangor, Me., 29 Jan., 1846. He went abroad in 1875, studied for some time under Leon Bonnat in Paris, and thence went, in 1877, to Munich, where he studied for a year in the academy under Ferdi- nand Wagner and Wilhelm Diez. Returning to Paris, he became a pupil in the school of Jean Paul Laurens. At the salon of 1878 he exhibited " Ital- ian Girl," and in the Paris exposition of the same year he also had two paintings. In 1878 he re- turned to the United States and opened a studio in Boston. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1882. His works painted since he settled in Boston are mostly portraits, in- cluding those of Sir Lyon Playfair and Alexander H.Vinton (1880); Wendell Phillips (1881); Will- iam Warren (1882); Francis Parkman (1883); An- drew P. Peabody and Gen. Charles Devens (1884) ; and George F. Choate and George F. Hoar (1885).

VINTON, John Adams, genealogist, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 5 Feb., 1801 ; d. in Winchester, Mass., 13 Nov., 1877. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1828, and at Andover theological seminary in 1831, ordained as a Congregational minister, 16 May, 1832, and held various pastorates in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. In 1846-'7 he was agent of the American society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, and in 1859-60 he was chaplain to the state almshouse at Monson, Mass. After the latter date he held no charge, but resided at South Boston and then at Winchester, and de- voted himself to genealogical researches. He con- tributed many articles to periodicals, including " Reminiscences of the Park Street Church " in the Boston " Recorder " (1849), and was the author of "The Vinton Memorial" (Boston, 1858; abridged ed., entitled "Sketches of the Vinton and other Families," 1858); "The Giles Memorial" (1864); " The Sampson Family in America " (1864) ; " Deb- orah Sampson, the Female Soldier of the Revolu- tion," a reprint, with introduction and notes, of a rare work that was published at Dedham in 1797 (1866); "The Symmes Memorial." containing an autobiography of the author (1873) ; " The Upton Memorial" (printed privately, Bath, Me., 1874); and "The Richardson Memorial " (Portland, 1876).

VINTON, John Rogers, soldier, b. in Providence, R. I., 16 June, 1801 ; d. near Vera Cruz. Mexico, 22 March, 1847. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1817, served in Florida and Mexico, and was killed by the windage of a cannon-ball, at the siege of Vera Cruz. He had become captain in the 3d artillery on 28 Dec, 1835. He was brevetted major on 23 Sept., 1846, for gallantry at Monterey, and the degree of A. M. was given him by Brown in 1837. — His brother, David Hammond, soldier, b. in Providence, R. I., 4 May, 1803; d. in Stamford, Conn., 21 Feb., 1873, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1822, was commissioned to the 4th artillery, and in 1823 transferred to the infantry. After a term of garrison and special duty, he was sent to Florida in 1836, where he was employed on quartermaster duty, and in 1837 was made quartermaster-general of Florida. He continued in this service until 1846, in which year he was made chief quartermaster on the staff of Gen. John E. Wool, with the rank of major, and served in Mexico. He was chief quartermaster of the Department of the West in 1852-'6, of the Department of Texas in 1857-'61, and was taken prisoner upon the surrender of Gen. Twiggs to the Confederates in February, 1861. Being exchanged after a few months, in August, 1861, he was made deputy quartermaster-general and chief quartermaster at New York, where until 1866 he rendered valuable services. In 1864 he was brevetted, for faithful and meritorious services, colonel and brigadier-general. In 1866 he became assistant quartermaster-general, and in the same year was placed upon the retired list. — Another brother, Alexander Hamilton, clergyman, b. in Providence, R. I., 2 May, 1807; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 26 April, 1881, studied at Brown and was graduated at the medical department of Yale in 1828. He settled in Pomfret, Conn., and there practised his profession for three years. Then entering the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church he was graduated in 1835 and ordained deacon on 28 June, 1835, by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk. He had charge of St. Paul's