THOMAS MAYHEW.

335 his laborers thereunto; and you may assure yourself that we will use all diligence to make a supply as the Lord may direct us. We shall, according to your advice, move Mr. John Higenson and Mr. Pierson, but do greatly fear we shall not prevail unless the Lord strongly set in to persuade them. In the mean time we think that God doth call for your more than ordinary assistance in this work, and are very well pleased that your spirit is so far inclined thereunto... We have ordered your last year's payment, twenty pounds, and shall be ready to increase for the future. . . We know not that your son was advised by any of us to go into England (but dissuaded); only it is possible some might say it might in some respects be of good use. It is what God, who is deep in counsel, had determined, and must be submitted unto. We could show you that you mistake in saying that he received one hundred and twenty pounds, or thereabouts, had we time to enlarge; but we do not think he had too much here, and his greatest reward is behind. Concerning the Indian boys you speak of sending, . . . . we advise they may not be sent until the spring; for the training of the Indians, and furnishing them with guns, powder, and shot, we are not free. . . . Not having more at present we commend you and this work to God's grace and blessing.

"Your loving friend,

"JOHN ENDICOTT, President,

"In the name and by the consent of the rest of the Commissioners." "BOSTON, 16th September, 1658."

The descendants of Governor Mayhew, from generation to generation, appear to have been persons of remarkable piety and usefulness.

Thomas Mayhew the second, left three sons, Matthew, Thomas and John. Matthew succeeded his grandfather in the government of the island in 1681, and also occasionally preached to the Indians. Thomas was a Judge of the Common Pleas for the County. John entered the University and preached to the English and the Indians on the island of Martha's Vineyard; and for several years received but five pounds annually for his services. He gathered an Indian church of a hundred members. His eldest son, Experience Mayhew, also entered the ministry and preached to the Indians, taking the charge of five or six different congregations. As he had a thorough knowledge of the Indian language -having been familiar with it from his infancy-he was employed by the commissioners of the society for propagating the Gospel in New England, to make a new version of the Psalms, and of the Gospel of John, which work he executed with great accuracy, completing it in 1709. He died November 20, 1758, aged eighty-five.

His publications were as follows: Sermons entitled "All mankind by nature equally under sin," 1724; "Indian Converts" (in which he gives an account of the lives of thirty Indian ministers and about eighty Indian men, women and youth, worthy of remembrance on account of their piety) 1727; "Indian Narratives," 1729; "A Letter on the Lord's Supper," 1741.

GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN.

GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, 1877-1880.*

GEORGE MCCLELLAN, father of George B., of Scotch descent, graduated at Yale College in 1816, at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1819; became a successful physician and surgeon, and was Professor of Surgery in Jefferson College from 1826 to 1838.

George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia, December 3, 1826; died at his home at St. Cloud, Orange Mountain, N. J., October 27, 1885.

He studied two years at the University of Pennsylvania, entered the West Point Military Academy in 1842, and graduated in 1846, taking the first rank in the department of engineering.

He served in the war with Mexico; in 1847 entered West Point as an Instructor, and prepared a "Manual on Bayonet Exercise," which became a text-book in the service; in 1852 accompanied General Marcy as engineer on his expedition to Texas; in 1853 was detailed to explore the route for the western portion of the Pacific Railroad, his report forming the first volume of "Pacific Railroad Surveys," published by Government.

At the opening of the Civil War, he was appointed MajorGeneral of Volunteers in Ohio; in the summer of 1861, was appointed by President Lincoln Major-General of the Regular Army, and in the autumn, on the retirement of General Scott, enfeebled by age, was made General-in-chief. In this capacity he reorganized the army, and reported a force of about one hundred and fifty thousand men. He found among his materials, courage, patriotism, intelligence and physical energy, and he went to work to institute obedience and discipline. He surrendered * Drake's "Dictionary of American Biography"; Lanman; Boston Recorder.

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his charge to General Burnside, November 7, 1862, "feeling that he had been wrongfully treated by men who did not know his plans."

In 1864 he was a candidate for the Presidency against Mr. Lincoln. In 1877 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, and held the office until 1880.

Early in the war Mr. McClellan sought a religious interview with his pastor, Rev. Dr. Thompson, of Cincinnati. "Mr. Thompson unfolded to him the way of salvation, as set forth in the Scripture ... They both kneeled, and Mr. Thompson prayed. At the close of this prayer, Mr. McClellan remained upon his knees. After about two minutes passed in silence, Mr. Thompson, who continued also kneeling, laid his hand upon the General's shoulder, and said: 'McClellan, pray for yourself.' The young soldier began almost in smothered tones, to pour out his soul to God; and when he rose there was a glow in his countenance. 'I had already,' said he, 'given myself to my country; but now I give myself to God, and pray that he will use me for my country's good.'"

Says the New York Evangelist, of November 5, 1885, "Mr. McClellan possessed an admirable private character, as shown in all the relations of life. He was a sincere and exemplary Christian. Many of us recall that Sabbath day, when, just returned from the field, he rose before the pulpit in which stood the beloved Dr. Adams, and took the vows of God upon him. Of that church he remained a member as long as he lived. There, when in the city, he was always in his place on the Sabbath; there he sat at the Communion table."

Mr. McClellan married the daughter of R. B. Marcy, and a son and daughter survived him. His home on Orange Mountain was adorned with many objects of art.

JOHN MCLEAN.

JUSTICE OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, 1830-1861.*

THE father of Mr. McLean was a poor man with a large family. In 1789 he moved from New Jersey to the West, settling first at Morganstown, Va., afterward near Nicholasville, Ky., and finally in 1797, in what is now Warren County, Ohio. Here he cleared a farm upon which he resided forty years.

John McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, March 11, 1785; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4, 1861.

His early advantages were limited, and he labored on the farm until sixteen years of age. When eighteen years of age he went to Cincinnati and commenced the study of law under direction of Arthur St. Clair, maintaining himself by writing in the office of the clerk of the county. Admitted to the Bar in the autumn of 1807, he commenced practice at Lebanon, Warren County Ohio.

He was elected Representative to Congress in 1812; from 1816 to 1822 was Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio; in 1823 was appointed United States Postmaster-General. The department being in an inefficient condition, he secured order, vigor and economy. The salary of the office was raised from $4000 to $6000. He was appointed by President Jackson a Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1829, entered upon his duties at January term, and held the office thirty-one years.

Says Rev. Dr. D. W. Clark, of Mr. McLean's early religious experience: "Through the instrumentality of that eminent minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Rev. John Collins, he was brought from a state of sceptical doubt and unbelief, into the enjoyment of the clear sunlight of the truth and faith of the Gospel."

* Appleton; Drake; Lanman; "Discourses," William B. Sprague; D. W. Clark.