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 DELAWARE COUNTY. 363 was a dry eye ; for all loved, and felt keenly the loss of liim, wliose cold remains lay before them. His remains were temporarily placed in the family vault of Gen. Root, from whence they will be removed to the new cemetery, when completed. Died — At his residence in the town of Sidney, on the 27th December, 1846, James Hughston, Esq.; in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Hughston was one of the first settlers of the Susque- hanna valley, and has held many stations of public trust. He died lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends. Died — on Tuesday, the 28th ult., 1845, at 7i o'clock p.m., at Meredith, Hon. Samuel A. Law, in the 74th year of his age. He was born in November, 1771, at Cheshire, Conn., and in 1788 entered Yale College, at which institution he graduated in 1792, with distinguished reputation as a scholar. The class of which he was a member, although small in numbers, furnished many distinguished men; among whom may be mentioned, Hon. Roger M. Sherman, Judge Chapman, and Eli Whitney, of Conn., Hon. Samuel Lathrop, and Rev. Dr. T. M. Cooley, of Mass., Hon. Charles Chauncey, of Penn., Hon. James Christie Estin, for many years Chief Justice of the Island of Bermuda, — and others. After pursuing a regular course of professional study in the Law School at Litchfield, Conn., he was admitted to the bar in 1795; and about the same time received honorary degrees from the Colleges of Columbia and Harvard. In 1798 he came into this county as agent for the owners of the Franklin Patent, and commenced the settle- ment at the place of his late residence. Some years subse- quently he received the appointment of Judge of the Common Pleas, the duties of which office he continued to perform, as the writer believes, for several years, was a member of