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��house erected and occupied by him in Dover, and adorned with cultivated taste, has not its least charm in the steadily increasing library of carefully selected literature, to whose study he devotes the hours not required by official duties.

He attends the First church of Dover, the Congregational church, where his emigrant ancestor held office two centuries and a quarter ago. He is a radical teetotaler, and has taken an active and life-long interest in the cause of temperance.

It is his personal desire that his «reat love for the horse, and, indeed, for all animals, be mentioned in this sketch.

Col. Hall's courteous and gentle- manly manners are not such as com- monly mark the bold and sagacious politician. His habitual mood and conversation suggest scholarly instincts, a comprehensive interest in public af- fairs, and an elevated standard of judg-

��ment. Time and acquaintance, how- ever, are required to show the breadth of his knowledge and culture. Public addresses have, as occasions demand- ed, exhibited the thoughtful political student, a patriotic love of country, and the ripeness of the accomplished scholar. Fidelity to every engagement, good faith to every principle espoused, firmness of purpose, steady industry and efficiency in every work under- taken, have insured him a success fully equal to the expectations of a nature not sanguine, conceited, nor unduly ambitious for the high prizes in life. But his friends feel that he is capable of more than he has yet achieved. At his age, with the possession of ample mental resources, the confidence of the public, and the health and strength which are the legitimate outcome of regular habits and simple tastes, it may, perhaps, be fairly assumed that recog- nitions of public respect await him greater than any yet bestowed.

��ME THO DISM IN POR TSMO I TB.

��BY HON. THOMAS L. TULLOCK.

{Part Second.}

��The following article, the introduc- tory part of which was contained in the April number of this Mag ?zine, will re- late to the pastors, presiding elders, and others who have been particularly identified with the church in Ports- mouth.

Rev. Jesse Lee was born in Prince George county, Maryland, in 1758.

Commencing his public religious efforts in the capacity of a class leader and exhorter, in the state of North Car- olina, he soon became a local preacher, his first sermon having been preached November 17, 1779. He attended the Virginia Conference in 1782 ; was appointed, with another preacher, to form a new circuit, and commenced

��his labors as a traveling preacher. In 1783 he was appointed to Caswell cir- cuit in North Carolina, at which time he was received into Conference and formally entered the ministry. He died at Hillsborough, Md., September 12, 18 1 6, and was buried at Baltimore. He was distinguished as a preacher and organizer, and labored most effect- ively in introducing Methodism into many new and productive fields, being eminently successful and influential. He was emphatically the founder of Methodism in New England, and was instrumental in extending the denomi- nation throughout its entire limits. He was the pioneer of Methodism in Bos- ton, and for the want of an open door

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