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sessions in the Assembly of Connecticut, was ticut of the same name, to which it seems a a member of the Constitutional Convention bit of romance is attached. The grandfather of the judge, after several refusals from his of that State in 1778, and a Brigadier-Gen eral in the Revolutionary War. He died lady-love, mounting his horse to leave her Nov. 17, 1789. for the last time, heard her then relenting call, " Return, Jonathan." These words he Varnum was born at Dracut, Massachu setts, Dec. 17, 1748, was graduated at Brown gave his son, the father of our subject, for College with first honors, was a Brigadier- a name.

Judge Meigs was graduated at Yale with General in the Revolutionary War, and first honors, was a thereafter became a member of the first distinguished lawyer General Assembly of and brilliant orator in the Northwest Terri Massachusetts. He tory, Federal Judge was a brother of Jo in Michigan and Lou seph Bradley Varnum, isiana, United States United States Senator Senator, Chief-Justice from Massachusetts. of the Supreme Court He died at Marietta, of Ohio, and Post Ohio, Jan. 10, 1789. master-General. He John Cleves died at Marietta, Ohio, Symmes was born on March 29, 1825. Judge Long Island, New Turner was born in York, July 21, 1742. England in 1750. He He was a delegate to was a captain in the the Continental Con Revolutionary War, gress from Delaware, and died at Phila*judge of the Superior delphia, March 16, Court and Chief-Jus i843tice of New Jersey. Joseph Gilman was His wife was a daugh from Exeter, New ter of Gov. William Hampshire, and was Livingstone; his JESSE BURGESS THOMAS. probably a cousin of daughter, Anna Nicholas Gilman, who Symmes, married was a member of the President William Constitutional Convention of 1787 from New Henry Harrison. He died at Cincinnati, Feb. 26, 18 14. Hampshire. The Governor, General Arthur St. Clair, Putnam was from Massachusetts. He was and the judges, first met as a legislative body a cousin of Gen. Israel Putnam. He was at Marietta, Ohio, July 15, 1788, when a code a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, a of laws was adopted. The laws were largely Brigadier-General in the Revolution, one of taken from those in force in Pennsylvania, the prominent members of the Ohio Com Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, Con pany of Associates, Surveyor-General of the necticut, New Jersey, and Kentucky. In United States, and a member of the Consti 1795 a Virginia Act of May 6, 1776 (adopt tutional Convention of Ohio in 1803. He ing the Common Law and Statutes of Eng died at Marietta, Ohio, May 1, 1824. land of a general nature, prior to the fourth Return Jonathan Meigs was a son of a dis tinguished Revolutionary soldier of Connec- year of the reign of James I.), was adopted.