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At the age of thirty-five, he was admitted to the Bar, was State's attorney in Benning ton County for four years prior to 1801. He was appointed by Mr. Jefferson United States attorney in the Vermont District, and in 1809, upon the election of Jonathan Robinson as senator, was chosen one of the judges of the Supreme Court. He held the office until 181 3, when the whole Court were displaced, the Federals taking control of the State government. He afterwards served as judge of the probate court; was a member of the Governor's Council from 1817 to 1821. He left no descendants. Daniel Farrand, one of the most ac complished of our early judges, was a native of Canaan, Conn., eldest son of Rev. Daniel Farrand, who is noted as an eminent divine in Sprague's annals of the American pulpit. He was educated at Yale College, and after graduation came to Windsor, in this State, where his brother-in-law, Stephen Jacob, had settled in 1780. I think he pursued his legal studies with Mr. Jacob. He held the position of registrar of the Probate Court for three years, from 1783 to 1786. I find no record of the admission of Mr. Farrand as an attorney, but he evidently began practice while in Windsor, for at the terms of the county court in 1784 and 1785, his name appears as counsel for the plain tiffs in at least a dozen cases, but he soon removed to Newbury, Vt. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Asa Porter of Haverhill, N. H., May 1, 1794; her sister, Sarah, was the mother of Helen Olcott, the wife of Rufus Choate. Mr. Farrand remained in Newbury until 1 800, and then removed to Bellows Falls in Rockingham. While living at Newbury, he was registrar of the probate court in that district; he represented the town in the convention in 1791, which adopted the Constitution of the United States. He was State's attorney in Orange County for several

years, during one of which he also served as judge of probate. He represented New bury in the Assembly in 1792, 1793, 1796 and 1798, serving the last year as Speaker. His professional practice was very large; as early as 1793, his name appears upon the docket of Orange County in over eighty cases. He represented the State in the first reported case in Vermont, State v. Annice, in which it was held that under an indictment for adultery, the particeps eriminis should not be admitted to testify; but this ruling has since been reversed and the prin ciple for which he contended has been re cognized as law for half a century. He resided in Rockingham four years, represented the town in 1802, was State's attorney in that county in 1801, 1802 and 1803, and in April, 1803, ran for Congress against James Eliott, but was defeated, the district being Republican. In 1804, he removed to Burlington and resided there until his death; he was elected a member of the Council of Censors in 18 1 3; at the session of the Legislature in October of the same year, a complete change was made in the membership of the Supreme Court, growing out of the political excite ment occasioned by the war, and he was elected one of the judges with Jonathan H. Hubbard of Windsor, and Nathaniel Chipman as Chief. He served for two years, when the Federal party having lost control of the Legislature, another complete change was made and new judges elected. Mr. Farrand made the 'address in behalf of the citizens of Burlington, welcoming President Monroe upon the occasion of his visit to the place in 1817. He was a man of extensive learning out side of his profession. The later years of his life, he was troubled with failing eyesight, so that he was obliged to retire from active business, although he never became totally blind. He left surviving him nine daugh ters, all brilliant, accomplished women, the youngest of whom, Mrs. Ellen M. Russell