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Rh sociate Judge of the Superior Court, and of the Supreme Court of Errors, and continued in that office by annual appointment until 1817, after which he returned for a short period to the bar. In 1822, he was appointed by the General Assembly one of the Commissioners to locate the Farmington Canal, and was made President of that Board. In 1826, he was chosen by his fellow-citizens Mayor of the city of Kew Haven. Having seen the canal located and completed to Northampton, in 1830, he resigned his office of Commissioner, since which period he has sustained no public office. But ever since his retirement to private life, until within a few years, he was the counsellor and friend of those who sought his advice, and always ready to communicate, from his extensive fund of knowledge and experience, whatever would tend to promote the welfare of the city with which he had been so long identified, and the general comfort and prosperity of his fellow-citizens.

27th. At Raleigh, Shelby Co., Tennessee, Hon., Judge of the Memphis Court of Common Law and Chancery. He was transferred, at his own request, eighteen months ago, from the Supreme Court, of which he had been long a member, to the office which he held at his death. He was a profound lawyer; and his brilliant talents, urbanitv, and social disposition, commanded the esteem and affection of all who knew him.

At Central Village, Conn., Hon., formerly a prominent politician of Rhode Island.

6th. At Corpus Christi, Texas, Col. . He was a native of Philadelphia, and resided some time in Tennessee whence he removed to Texas in 1835. He commanded the artillery, and acted as Gen. Houston's Aid at the battle of San Jacinto. He was afterwards Secretary of War, under Houston, and Secretary of the Navy during Lamar's administration. In 1843 he went with Col. S. M. Williams as Commissioner to Mexico, to negotiate a treaty which it was thought the government of that county were disposed to make with Texas; but the mission was unsuccessful. After his return, Col. Hockley withdrew from public life.

11th. At Fort Smith, Arkansas, Brevet Brigadier-General, aged about 80. He was the son of the gallant officer of the same name, who defeated the Indian chief, Logan near the mouth of the Kenhawa, before the Revolution. He was