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��Taylor, in his characteristic style, said, "I was dragged through the 'lubber- hole' (the window), brought down by a broadside from the '74' (Elijah Hedding), and fell into the arms of Thomas W. Tucker."

Rev. Josiah F. Chamberlain was born in September, 17S6, and died March 26, 1864. He was a member of the Vermont Conference. He commenced preaching in 181 1, and was a very acceptable minister. In 1 81 6 he was stationed at Portsmouth, but Caleb Dustin, who was appointed to Salisbury, supplied the pulpit a con- siderable portion of the year.

Rev. Daniel Fillmore was born in Franklin, Conn., and, at the age of twenty-one, supplied on the Tolland circuit. In 181 1 he joined the N. E. Conference. As a beloved itinerant he served the church about fifty years with remarkable fidelity and success. In 1852 he requested a superannuated relation, preaching occasionally. His pastorate at Portsmouth — 181 7-19 — is of precious memory to the few aged pilgrims, now surviving, who were fa- vored by his ministrations. " He was a good man, amiable, honest, correct and punctual ; as a minister, sincere and faithful ; an excellent sermonizer, and preeminently diligent, laborious and successful in pastoral duties. He died at Providence, R. I., August 13, 1858.

Rev. Martin Ruter, d. d., was born April 3, 1785, at Charlton, Mass., and united with the church in 1799; he became an exhorter in 1800, and was licensed to preach. In 1S01, at the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the New York Conference: in 1807 was appointed to Portsmouth. In 1808 he was a member from New England of the first delegated Conference at its session at Baltimore. He was, in 181 8, the first Principal of the first Methodist Literary Institution in New England — the Newmarket Wesleyan Academy — which was subsequently re- moved to Wilbraham, Mass. Dr. Ru- ter was also a member of the General Conference of 1824 and 1836. He was

��a very able classical scholar, and a popular divine, exceedingly active and zealous in every sphere to which he was assigned. In 18 19 he was ap- pointed to Portsmouth, but, by an ar- rangement with the Presiding Elder, he remained in charge of the academy, and Rev. Daniel Fillmore preached mainly at Portsmouth. Dr. Ruter was the editor of the New England Mis- sionary Magazine, which was printed by Isaac Hill, at Concord, N. H., in 181 5, and preceded all other church publications. Four quarterly numbers were issued. He was elected Piook Agent by the General Conference of 1820. and was president of the Augusta College, Kentucky, in 1828 ; Alleghany College, Meadville, Pa., in 1834, and was appointed superintendent of a new mission in Texas, in 1837, and died at Washington, Texas, May 16, 1838. He excelled as a preacher, be- came popular as an educator, and was an excellent organizer. His busy life was devoted to Christian activities. He will long be reverently remembered by the church as one of the most use- ful and influential ministers of early American Methodism.

Rev. Jacob Sanborn was born in Unity, N. H., May 16, 1788; com- menced preaching August 14, 181 1 ; joined the N. E. Conference in June, 1 81 2 ; was agent for Wesleyan Univer- sity, 1846. He was stationed at im- portant places in New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Is- land, as pastor, and in charge of large districts as Presiding Elder. He be- came a supernumerary in 1850, and a resident of Concord, N. H., but preached more or less frequently, often regularly, until May 10, 1863, when he preached for the last time at Pem- broke, N. H., where he was first sta- tioned by the N. E. Conference in 1 81 2. He died at Concord, N. H., March 16, 1S67. His second wife, whom he married June 21, 1826, sur- vived him, and now resides at Exeter, N. H. She was Eliza, the daughter of the late Abednego Robinson, Esq., of Portsmouth, and the sister of the late

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