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except during two years, when poor health compelled him to cease preaching, and occu- pied himself with teaching and writing for periodicals. He was author of a work on "Genius and Faith, or Poetry and Religion iu their Mutual Relations." He died in Bethesda. (West) Virginia, October 2^, 1S54.

Craig, Lewis S., born in \'irginia ; entered the army as second lieutenant of the Second Dragoons. October 14, 1837: transferred to Third Infantry. August, 1838, and in March. 1840. made assistant commissary of sub- sistence. He was promoted to first lieuten- nant in June. 1840: to captain in June. 1846; served with distinction in the Mexican war. and was brevetted major for gallant con- duct at Monterey, and lieutenant-colonel for Contreras and Cherubusco, where he was wounded. He was killed by deserters while hi the performance of his duty, near Xew River, California. June 6, 1852*

Jordan^ Robert, a Quaker, born in Nanse- mond, Virginia. October 27, 1693; he began to preach in 1718; visited Virginia, Mary- land, and Carolina, and Xew England in 1722. and suffered imprisonment. He trav- elled in Great Britain and the West Indies hi 1728-30; made a journey to Barbadoes in 1740; and was in Boston in 1741, returning to Philadelphia, where he died August 5, 1742.

McNutt, Alexander, a Scotch-Irishman, who settled in Rockbridge county and served in the French and Indian war as lieutenant. He kept a journal of the campaign which he presented to Governor Fauquier. For some years he resided in Nova Scotia. Dur- ing the revolutionary war he joined the

American army at Saratoga, and was after- wards an office under Baron de Kalb in the South. He died in 181 1, and was buried in the Falling Spring churchyard, Rockbridge county. \'irginia.

Hallam, Lewis, son of Adam Hallam, actor, was born in England about 1714. and was. like his father, an actor by profession. He was sent by his brother, William Hal- Um, manager of the new theatre in Good- inanfields. London, to conduct the first com- pany of English professionals to America. They arrived at Yorktewn, Virginia, in 1752, and gave their first performance in Williamsburg, then the capital of the colony, hiring a large wooden structure erected for a theatre by another company from Xew York, which had left not long before. Their opening performance was "The Merchant of Venice," and the music was furnished by a single player on the harpsichord. They remained in Virginia about eleven months, playing at different places, and then went to Annapolis and Philadelphia, and in 1754 performed in New York. Two years later they went to the British West Indies, and in that year Lewis Hallam died in Jamaica. His wife, who was an actress at the Goodmanfields Theatre, was born in London, and after the death of Mr. Hallam married David Douglas, his successor in the management. She retired from the stage in 1769 and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1773. Lewis Hallam's son, Lewis, made his first appearance on the stage in Williamsburg at the time of his father's first coming to this country. He was a boy of twelve years of age, and, having only one line to say. was so frightened that he remained speechless till bursting into tears