theodore frelinghuysen. 225 belonged to the church where he served as Elder, once said to him I went to the prayer-meeting this morning to meet you and hear you pray, and you were not there.' He replied, 'Was not God there? I thought you went to meet Him.'" In the place of professional responsibility his piety was firm. "A wealthy client, in stating his case, incautiously uttered an oath. Mr. Frelinghuysen immediately arose and said with deep feeling: 'Sir, if you use such language again, I will immediately throw up your case.' The offence was not repeated." "His profes He was an example of Christian benevolence. sional labors brought him a large compensation. These gains were neither hoarded nor squandered, but lent to the Lord in a wise and liberal charity." He was sympathetic toward the poor. "During his busy practice as a lawyer, it was his habit to spend every Saturday afternoon in searching out the poor and afflicted, and in ministering both by sympathy and pecuniary aid to their necessities." The fruit of his piety was shown in his efforts to win souls. The following is a passage from one of his addresses. "Our irreligious friends expect us to be faithful to them. Their surprise is far more awakened, and oftener too, by our guilty silence, than by an affectionate and earnest solicitude." Says Lucius Q. C. Elmer: "But few if any of his associates at the Bar, or in public life, were left, without his having taken some opportunity of bringing before them, orally or in writing, the subject of personal religion." One who was in attendance during his last sickness gives the following: "One of the leading members of the New Jersey Bar, called to ask after his health, and told me, that it was to Mr. Frelinghuysen's conversations with him, as they walked in the morning together while attending court at Trenton, that he attributed his first religious impressions. When this was repeated to Mr. Frelinghuysen, he replied, "Those are precious remembrances.' "One day, as we were leaving his room to go to dinner, someone pleasantly said, 'Uncle, we wish you could take dinner with us.' 'Ah! my son,' he replied, 'I am going to eat of the bread and drink of the wine of everlasting life.' "A youth of about seventeen years, the son of a friend, called, at Mr. Frelinghuysen's request, to see him. 'I have sent for you, my son,' said he; 'I want you to see how a Christian can die. I have been all my life in fear of that hour, and yet for seven weeks I have seen death day by day approaching, and never was calmer. . . . . I have here a little keepsake for you; it is the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. I don't want to exact from you a rigorous promise; but I do want you to say that, by God's grace, you will try to do what I have done. For forty-five years, I have made it a rule, at noon, or as near to it as I could-perhaps there would not be an opportunity before tea-time-to read a chapter in the Bible and spend fifteen minutes in private devotion. My son, farewell. Go now, and seek God's grace.'" Early in his professional career Mr. Frelinghuysen was united in marriage to Charlotte, daughter of Archibald Mercer. "Providence having denied them children, they were companions together at home and abroad." The following quotation reveals that he was a lover of children. "In his daily walks in New Brunswick, he could scarcely ever meet them in the street, without pausing to look in their faces, and engage them in conversation. Not unfrequently when he saw them flattening their noses against the windows of a toy shop, in their eager desires to scan its treasures, the childless man would find out what they most coveted, and then gratify himself by gratifying them." Frederick Frelinghuysen, who became United States Senator, and Secretary of State, was his nephew and adopted son." SAMUEL FULLER. EIGHTH SIGNER OF THE COMPACT, 1620.* SAMUEL FULLER, a Deacon of Rev. John Robinson's church, in Leyden, Holland, died at Plymouth, Mass., in 1633. A passenger on board the Mayflower in 1620, he was the eighth signer of the Compact, and was one of the planters of New Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay. "He was the first regularly educated physician that visited New England." He did not confine his professional offices to the inhabitants of Plymouth and to the Aborigines of the country: Salem and Charlestown were destitute of a resident physician, and at the request of Governor Endicott were visited by Dr. Fuller. He went to Salem to give relief to the sickness introduced there by the newly arrived ships, first in 1628, again in 1629. The following is a letter from Mr. Fuller, dated Charlestown, August 2, 1630. "To his loving friend MR. WILLIAM BRADFORD, Governor of Plymouth, these: "SIR-There is come hither a ship (with cattle, and more passengers) on Saturday last, which brings this news out of England, that the plague is sore, both in the city and country, and that the University of Cambridge is shut up by reason thereof. . . . Some are here entered into a church covenant: the first was four, namely, the Governor, Mr. John Winthrop, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Dudley, and Mr. Willson; since that, five more are joined unto them, and others it is like, will add themselves to them daily. The Lord increase them, both in number and holiness, for his mercy's sake. I here but lose time and long to be at home; I can do them no good, for I want drugs, and things fit. ting to work with. I purpose to be at home this week (if God permit) and "American Medical Biography," by James Thacher, Boston 1828; "Collections of Massachusetts Historical Society," first series, vols. 3 and 4; Young's "Chronicles of the Pilgrims." Mr. Johnson and Captain Endicott will come with me. Be you lovingly saluted, and my sisters, with Mr. Brewster, and Mr. Smith, and all the rest of our friends. The Lord Jesus bless us and the whole Israel of God. Amen. "Your loving brother-in-law, "SAMUEL FULLER." In the manuscript Records of the church in Plymouth, v. 1, p. 42, it is stated: "When the church came away out of Holland, they brought with them one deacon, Mr. Samuel Fuller.. He was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit." John Cotton, Esq., in his account of the Church of Christ in Plymouth, written 1760, speaks of Mr. Fuller as an eminent surgeon, and a man of great piety." 66 Mr. Fuller's wife was named Bridget. Their son, Samuel Fuller, was a member of the church at Plymouth, served the church at Middleborough as preacher, more or less for sixteen years, and finally was there ordained to the work of the ministry. He was a sincere, godly man, and a useful preacher. JONAS GALUSHA. GOVERNOR OF VERMONT, 1809-1813, 1815-1820.* JACOB GALUSHA was a farmer and blacksmith, in moderate circumstances, but "of unblemished character, sound judgment, and much native shrewdness." He married Lydia, daughter of Mathew Huntington, of Preston, Conn. Jonas Galusha, third son of Jacob, was born in Norwich, Conn., February 11, 1753; died at Shaftsbury, Vt., October 8, 1834. He made agriculture his calling, and pursued that employment through life, except when occupied with the duties of public office. He was able, even to advanced age, to do the full work of a man, with hoe, scythe, sickle or ax. When the Revolutionary war commenced, he took an active part in favor of the independence of the colonies. He was a member of a company, commanded by his brother David, in Colonel Warner's regiment, and did service in Canada in the fall of 1775. Prior to the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, two companies of militia had been organized in Shaftsbury, one of them under his Captaincy, the other under that of Amos Huntington. Captain Huntington being taken prisoner at Ticonderoga, the two companies were consolidated under Captain Galusha. When he received orders from Col. Moses Robinson to march his company to Bennington, he was sick in bed, recovering from a fever, but he promptly called out his men and led them to the scene of action. He continued in active military service until the surrender of Burgoyne. In civil offices, he was Sheriff of the county of Bennington, 1781 -1787; member of the Council, 1793-1798; member of the "Jonas Galusha, Fifth Governor of Vermont,” by Rev. P. H. White. |