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leaving the academy in the charge of his brother, John Blair Smith, whom he had engaged as tutor, and accepted the profes- sorship of moral philosophy in Princeton College, to the presidency of which he suc- ceeded on the death of Dr. VVitherspoon. This he resigned in 1812. Among his works are: "Causes of the Variety of the Com- plexion and Figure of the Human Species'* (1/^8) ; "Oration on the Death of Washing- ton." at Trenton (iSoo) ; Sermons (1801); •'Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion" (1809) ; "Love of Praise" (1810) ; "A Continuation to Ramsay's History of the United States*'; "Lectures on Moral and Political Philosophy'*; "The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion." He died August 21, 1819.

Buford, Abraham, was born in Virginia. He distinguished himself in the early part of the revolutionary war, and was appointed colonel of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, May 16, 1778. In the spring of 1780 he was sent with his command to relieve Gen. Lin- coln at Charleston, South Carolina, but hearing that the Americans had surrendered the place he began his return march. He was overtaken by a force of seven hundred cavalry and mounted infantry, under com- mand of Col. Tarleton, at Waxhaw Creek, South Carolina, May 29, 1780. Though hav- ing but four hundred infantry and a small cavalry force, Buford refused to surrender, and was preparing for defense when the British fell upon the continental troops, and giving no quarter killed nearly the entire force. Col. Buford died in Scott county, Kentucky, June 29, 1833.

Baylor, George, was born at Newmarket, Caroline county, Virginia, January* 12, 1752.

He joined the revolutionary army at the be- ginning of the war, serving first as aide-de- camp to Gen. Washington. He was given a horse by congress, in appreciation of his ser- vices in the attack on the Hessians at Tren- ton, New Jersey, and in his prompt announce- ment to congress of the news of the victory, in January, 1777, he was promoted colonel, and in 1778 was captured by Gen. Gray at Tappan, New York, with his entire com- mand, after sixty-seven had been killed, and he was held a prisoner for some time. Sub- sequently he was placed in command of the Virginia cavalry, and served until the end of the war. A serious lung wound, received at Tappan, finally resulted in his death in Bridgetown, Barbadoes, West Indies, in March, 1784. He was son of John and Frances (Norton) Baylor.

Hoge, Moses, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, February 15, 1752. He was one of Graham's pupils at Liberty Hall, and was intimately affected by the latter s genius and personality. He studied the* ology under James Waddell, Wirt's "Blind Preacher." In 1787 he was pastor in Shep- herdstown, gaining much reputation. He made his first venture as an author in 1793 in "Strictures on a Pamphlet by the Rev. Jeremiah Walker, Entitled the 'Fourfold Foundation of Calvinism Examined and Shaken.'" Another characteristic produc- tion was: "Christian Panoply: An An- swer to Paine's *Age of Reason'" (1799). Dr. Hoge was a bold and honorable con- troversialist. In Shepherdstown, Dr. Hoge had been instructing young men in theology. He was readily induced, therefore, to move to Hampden-Sidney College in 1807 as Alex- ander's successor. Here he resumed the

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