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 DEAN FOREST DEATH WATCH 743 to send ministers to negotiate treaties, Frank- lin and Arthur Lee were commissioned to join him at Paris, and he assisted in the negotiation of the treaty with France. In consequence of the extravagant contracts he had entered into, not authorized by his instructions, he was recalled, Nov. 21, 1777, and John Adams ap- pointed in his place. He left Paris April 1, 1778, and on his return, being required to give an account of his proceedings on the floor of congress, evaded a complete disclosure, on the ground that his papers were in Europe. He then attacked congress and his fellow commis- sioners in a public manifesto, but did not suc- ceed in removing suspicion from himself of having misapplied the public money. He after- ward published in 1784 an address to the citi- zens of the United States on the same subject, and returning to Europe died in great poverty. DEAN FOREST, a royal forest of Gloucester, England, W. of the Severn, and 10 m. S. W. of Gloucester; area, about 22,000 acres, one half of which is now set aside for navy timber ; pop. about 11,000. Anciently nearly all that part of the county lying W. of the Severn was included within its limits. It embraces a num- ber of plantations of oak; beech, and other trees, and orchards famous for the production of styre-apple cider. It abounds in coal and iron, and several railways have been constructed from the mines to the Severn, Wye, &c. Dean Forest is divided into six districts called walks, and is the property of the crown. The inhab- itants, who are mostly employed in mining, pay no county rates. DEARBORN, a S. E. county of Indiana, bor- dering on Ohio, drained by Whitewater river, and separated from Kentucky by the Ohio river; area, 291 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 24,116. Part of the surface is level and part hilly ; the soil is generally fertile. Limestone is the principal rock. The Ohio and Mississippi, and the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and La Fayette railroads, and the Whitewater canal traverse it, and the Whitewater Valley railroad inter- sects the N. E. corner. The chief productions in 1870 were 171,656 bushels of wheat, 448,- 793 of Indian corn, 156,314 of oats, 59,122 of barley, 66,506 of potatoes, 18,697 tons of hay, 331,232 Ibs. of butter, and 18,777 of wool. There were 4,507 horses, 4,621 milch cows, 4,239 other cattle, 6,017 sheep, and 10,820 swine; 6 flour mills, 1 planing mill, 3 saw mills, 4 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 1 of cars, 8 of barrels, 5 of furniture, 1 of iron castings, 3 of machinery, 8 of cigars, 1 of woollen goods, 3 distilleries, and 8 breweries. Capital, Lawrenceburg. DEARBORN, Henry, an American general, born at Hampton, N. H., in March, 1751, died at Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1829. He was a practising physician at Portsmouth when, on hearing of the battle of Lexington, he immedi- ately marched, April 20, 1775, with 60 volun- teers, and was at Cambridge early the next day, a distance of 65 m. On his return he was made a captain in Stark's regiment; was at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, and accom- panied Arnold on the expedition through the woods of Maine to Quebec. In the attack on that place, Dec. 31, he was taken prisoner, afterward released on parole, and exchanged in March, 1777. He served as major under Gates at the capture of Burgoyne, and distin- guished himself and his regiment by a gallant charge at the battle of Monmouth in 1778. In 1779 he served in Sullivan's expedition against the Indians, in 1780 with the army of New Jersey, in 1781 at Yorktown, and in 1782 was on garrison duty at Saratoga. Having emi- grated to Maine, he was appointed by Wash- ington in 1789 marshal of that district. He was twice member of congress, and for eight years, during Jefferson's presidency, secretary of war. In 1809 he was made collector of Boston, and on Jan. 27, 1812, he was com- missioned as senior major general in the Uni- ted States army, and commander of the north- ern department. In the spring of 1813 he captured York in Upper Canada, and Fort George at the mouth of the Niagara, but was recalled, and soon afterward placed in com- mand of the military district of New York city. Resigning his commission in 1815, he was appointed, May 7, 1822, minister to Por- tugal, where he remained two years, and was recalled at his own request. His life and pa- pers were published by his son, Gen. HENRY ALEXANDER SOAMMELL DEARBORN (1783-1851), also the author of " Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea" (2 vols. 8vo, 1819), "Inter- nal Improvement and Commerce of the West " (1839), &c. He was a lawyer at Salem, Mass., brigadier general of militia, commanding Bos- ton harbor in 1812, collector of Boston 1812- '29, member of congress 1831-'5, adjutant gen- eral of Massachusetts 1835-'43, and mayor of Roxbury 1847-'51. DEATH WATCH, a superstitious name given to the sound produced by several insects, but mostly by a small beetle, hence also so called, of the family serricornes, and genus anolium (Fabr.). The body is firm, about a quarter of an inch long, and ovoid ; the rounded head is almost entirely received into an arched thorax ; 1 2 1. Anobium striatum. 2. A. tessellatum. 3. A. pertinax. the antennas are terminated by three joints larger than the rest, the last being ovate ; the man- dibles are short, thick, and dentated beneath the point ; the palpi are very short, and end in