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 thrice a Senator, was a member of the Council, and was offered a position on the bench. In 1808 he received the honorary M.D. from Harvard. After fifty-four years of incessant toil for his fellow men, he went to his reward in 1823, aged eighty.

He was ably seconded by Dr. Lemuel Hayward of the class of 1768, a native of Braintree, but then practising at Jamaica Plain itself, after completing his novitiate under the eminent Joseph Warren. He was assigned to the Loring Hospital, while Aspinwall took the Bernard. A pleasant letter from him is on record, showing his solicitude for the mates under his charge; two of them were going up for examination, and he begs that the questions be put to them in such a manner that they might not “be daunted” by the unaccustomed ordeal. Like Aspinwall, he returned to civil work after the Siege, and also specialized on the all-absorbing subject of smallpox. In 1798 he retired, and lived comfortably for many years in Boston (on the site of the present Hayward Place), “cheerful, kind, hospitable, and full of agreeable and instructive conversation.” He was celebrated on both sides of the water, being a member