try, he offered his services to congress, ed into a combination with a numand was honored with the rank of ber of his neigbors to hunt alternately, brigadier general. He discovered the till they should destroy her. At length greatest intrepidity in an engagement the hounds drove her into her den in with a party of the British near Charles- Pomfret and several persons soon colton in May 1779. In the assault upon lected with guns, straw, fire, and sulSavannah Oct. ninth by gen. Lincoln phur to attack the common enemy. But and count D'Estaing, Pulaski was woun- the dogs were afraid to approach her, ded at the head of two hundred horse- and the fumes of brimstone could men, as he was galloping into the town not force her from her cavern. It was with the intention of charging in the now ten o'clock at night. Mr. Putrear. He died on the eleventh, and con- nam proposed to his black servant to desgress resolved, that a monument should cend into the cave and shoot the wolf; be erected to his memory. but, as the negro declined, he resolved to PURCHAS, Samuel, a minister in 'do it himself. Having divested himself London, died about 1628, aged 51. He of his coat and waistcoat, and having a published his Pilgrimage, or Relations of long rope fastened round his legs, by the World, 5 vols. fol. London, 1641, &c. which he might pulled back at a concerIt is a rare and valuable collection and ted signal, he entered the cavern head abridgment of travels. foremost with a blazing torch, made of PURSH, Frederic, a botanist, was strips of birch bark, in his hand. He deborn at Tobolski in Siberia, and educated scended fifteen feet, passed along horizonat Dresden. He resided in this country tally ten feet, and then began the gradufrom 1799 to 1811, employed in various al ascent, which is sixteen feet in length. excursions by Mr. Hamilton of Philadel- He slowly proceeded on his hands and phia and Dr. Hosack of N. York. On knees in an abode, which was silent as going to England in 1811 with a collec- the house of death. Cautiously glancing tion of plants, he was patronized by forwards he discovered the glaring eyeSmith and Banks, who opened to him balls of the wolf, who started at the sight their botanical stores. After publishing of his torch, gnashed her teeth, and gave his book in 1814 he returned to America, a sullen growl. He immediately kicked and, while engaged in collecting materi- the rope, and was drawn out with a als for a Canadian flora, died at Montreal friendly celerity and violence, which not June 11, 1820, aged 46. He published a a little bruised him. Loading his gun valuable work, Flora Americae Septentri- with nine buck shot, and carrying it in onalis, or the plants of N. America, Lon- one hand, while he held the torch with don, 8vo. 1814. the other, he descended a second time. As he approached the wolf, she howled, rolled her eyes, snapped her teeth, dropped her head between her legs, and was evidently on the point of springing at him. At this moment he fired at her head, and soon found himself drawn out of the cave. Having refreshed himself he again descended, and seizing the wolf by her ears kicked the rope, and his companions above with no small exultation dragged them both out together. During the French war he was appointed to command a company of the first troops, which were raised in Connecticut in 1755. He rendered much service to the army in PUTNAM, Israel, major general in the army of the U. S., was born in Salem, Mass. Jan. 7, 1718. His mind was vigorous, but it was never cultivated. In running, leaping, and wrestling he almost always bore away the prize. In 1739 he removed to Pomfret, Conn., where he cultivated a considerable tract of land. He had however to encounter many difficulties, and among his troubles the depredations of wolves among his sheepfold was not the least. In one night 70 fine sheep and goats were killed. A she wolf being considered as the principal cause of the havoc, Mr. Putnam enter command the reserve. In Aug. 1776 he was stationed at Brooklyn, on Long Island. After the defeat of our army he went to New York and was very serviceable in the city and neighborhood. In Oct. or Nov. he was sent to Philadelphia to fortify that city. In Jan. 1777 he was directed to take post at Princeton, where he continued until spring. At this place a sick prisoner, a captain, re the neighborhood of Crown point. In Cambridge, Putnam was appointed to 1756, while near Ticonderoga, he was repeatedly in the most imminent danger. He escaped in an adventure of one night with twelve bullet holes in his blanket. In Aug. he was sent out with several hundred men to watch the motions of the enemy. Being ambuscaded by a party of equal numbers, a general but irregular action took place. He had discharged his fusee several times, but at length it missed fire, while its muzzle was presen-quested that a friend in the British army ted to the breast of a savage. The warrior with his lifted hatchet and a tremendous war whoop compelled him to surrender, and then bound him to a tree. In the course of the action the parties changed their position, so as to bring this tree directly between them. The balls flew by him incessantly; many struck the tree, and some passed through his clothes. The enemy now gained possession of the ground, but, being afterwards driven from the field, they carried their prisoner with them. At night he was stript, & a fire was kindled to roast him alive; but a French officer saved him. The next day he arrived at Ticonderoga,& thence he was carried to Montreal. About the year 1759 he was exchanged through the ingenuity of his fellow prisoner, colonel Schuyler. After the peace he returned to his farm. He was ploughing in his field in 1775, when he heard the news of the battle of Lexington. He immediately unyoked his team, left his plough on the spot, and without changing his clothes set off for Cambridge. He soon went to Connecticut, levied a regiment, and repaired again to the camp. In a little time he was promoted to the rank of major general. In the battle of Bunker's hill he exhibited his usual intrepidity. He directed the men to reserve their fire, till the enemy was very near, reminded them of their skill, and told them to take good aim. They did so, and the execution was terrible. After the retreat, he made a stand at Winter hill and drove back the enemy under cover of their ships. When the army was organized by general Washington at at Brunswick might be sent for to assist him in making his will. Putnam was perplexed. He had but fifty men under his command, and he did not wish to have his weakness known; yet he was unwilling to deny the request. He however sent a flag of truce, and directed the officer to be brought in the night. In the evening lights were placed in all the college windows, and in every apartment of the vacant houses throughout the town. The officer on his return reported, that general Putnam's army could not consist of less, than four or five thousand men. In the spring he was appointed to the command of a separate army in the highlands of New York. One Palmer, a lieutenant in the tory new levies, was detected in the camp; governor Tryon reclaimed him as a British officer, threatening vengeance if he was not restored. General Putnam wrote the following pithy reply; "Sir, Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in your king's service, was taken in my camp as a spy; he was condemned as a spy; and he shall be hanged as a spy. P. S. Afternoon. He is hanged." After the loss of fort Montgomery, the commander in chief determined to build another fortification, and he directed Putman to fix upon a spot. To him belongs the praise of having chosen West Point. The campaign of 1779, which was principally spent in strengthening the works at this place, finished the military career of Putnam. A paralytic affection impaired the activity of his body, and he passed the remainder of his days in retirement, retaining his relish for enjoyment, his strength of memory, and all the fac ulties of his mind. He died at Brooklyn,, revolutionary army he was the last surConn., May 29,1790, aged 72. His only viving general officer, excepting La Faysurviving daughter, Mrs. Mary Waldo, ette. died at Conway, N. H. Nov. 1825, aged 72 years. His son, col. Israel P., died at Belpre, Ohio, in March 1812.-Peter Schuyler P., his 7th son, died at Williamstown, Mass. in 1827, aged 63.—Gen. P. was exemplary in the various relations of life, a constant attendant on public worship, and a worshipper of God in his house. For many years he was a professor of religion. In his last years he professed a deep sense of sin, yet a strong hope of salvation through the Redeemer of sinners.-Humphrey's life of P. PUTNAM, Rufus, general, a soldier of the revolution, and the father of the western country, was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, in 1788. He engaged in the war of 1756, and in the revolutionary struggle took an active part. At the commencement of hostilities he commanded a regiment; and during the war was an engineer. His commission as brigadier in the army of the U. S. is dated Jan. 7, 1783. On the return of the peace he retired to his farm. For several years he was a member of the legislature. In 1786 and 1787 he was engaged in organizing the Ohio company for the purpose of settling the north west territory. The affairs of the company were intrusted to him. QUINCY, Edmund, a judge of the superior court of Mass., was born at Braintree Oct. 24, 1681. His grand father, Edmund Quincy, came to Boston with John Cotton in 1633, and became a proprietor of lands at Mount Wollaston or Braintree in 1635 and died soon afterwards, aged 33. His father, lieutenant colonel Edmund Quincy, died Jan. 7, 1698. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of major general Gookin. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1699, and afterwards sustained several important offices, the duties of which he discharged with ability and faithfulness. He was a judge of the superior court from 1718 till a short time before his death. Being sent as an agent to London for the purpose of settling the boundary line between Massachusetts and N. Hampshire, he died in that city of the small pox Feb. 23, 1733, aged 56. His wife was the daughter of Josiah Flynt. He left two sons, Edmund and Josiah ; and two daughters, Mrs. Wendell and Mrs. Jackson. The general court made a donation to his heirs of 1000 acres of land in Lenox, Berkshire county, and erected a monument at Bunhill-fields, London. His uncommon powers of reasoning and of eloquence were joined to the Christian virtues. As a member of the council he for twenty years had great in ceedings of government. In his family it gave him pleasure to worship the God of all the families of the earth, and to impart to his children religious instruction. Memoirs of J. Quincy, 3. April 7, 1788 he planted himself with about 40 others in the wilderness of the west bank of the Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingum, and called their settle-fluence in giving a direction to the proment Marietta. He lived to see Ohio a flourishing state, having nearly 70 counties and a population of 700,000 souls. In 1789 Washington appointed him a judge of the supreme court of the north west territory; and in 1791 he was appointed a QUINCY, John, colonel, the son of brigadier general under Wayne; in 1795 Daniel Quincy, was the grandson of lieut. surveyor general of the U. S., which of- col. Edmund Quincy by his first wife, fice he held till some years after the acces-Joanna Hull, daughter of Mr. Hull, an sion of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency. assistant preacher with Thomas Thacher He was a member of the convention, in Boston, and was born in 1689. which framed the constitution of Ohio. ing graduated in 1708, he was early emHe died at Marietta May, 1, 1824, aged ployed in public life, being appointed a 86. He was liberal, generous, hospitable, major in the militia, and colonel on the a philanthropist, and a christian. Of the resignation of his uncle, judge Edmund Hav Quincy. For 40 years without interrup- | years under the care of Oxenbridge tion he was a representative and a mem- Thacher, of Boston, an eminent lawyer. ber of the council. He was long the On commencing his profession his talents, speaker of the House. He died July 13, diligence, and fidelity secured to him an 1767, aged 78 years. He discharged the extensive and profitable practice. At this duties of his various offices with fidelity, period he wrote several manuscript volhonor, and acceptance, carefully avoid- umes of " Reports" of decisions in the ing all temptations to unfaithfulness, and supreme court, in which are preserved retaining a high sense of accountableness abstracts of the arguments of Auchmuty, to God. His ample fortune did not cor- Thacher, Gridley, Otis, Adams, and other rupt him. He was just and devout, lawyers. The circumstances of the adorning by his holy conduct and atten- times soon directed his attention and all dance to the ordinances of the gospel the the energies of a very sensitive mind to Christian profession, and being exempla- the political condition of his country. In ry in the relations of private life. When opposition to the measures of the British that part of Braintree, in which the Quin-government he began to write political cy farms lay, was incorporated, the gen- essays as early as 1767. In the next eral Court, in honorable remembrance of year, after the landing of two British reghis long and faithful services, gave it the iments at Boston, he made a most forcible name of Quincy. He left an only son, appeal to the patriotism of his countrymen Norton Quincy, an amiable and virtuous in a piece, signed "Hyperion. " Of the man, who died without issue. His boldness of his views a judgment may be daughter married Rev. William Smith formed from his language in 1768: of Weymouth and was the mother of Mrs." Did the blood of the ancient Britons Cranch and of the wife of John Adams. swell our veins, did the spirit of our foreHis paternal estate, Mount Wollaston, fathers inhabit our breasts; should we is now the property of his great-grandson, | hesitate a moment in preferring death to John Quincy Adams, late president of a miserable existence in bondage?"-and the U. States. QUINCY, Edmund, the son of judge Edmund Q., was born in Braintree in 1703 and graduated at Harvard college in 1722. For many years he was a merchant in Boston, he afterwards lived on the paternal estate; and died July 4, 1788 aged 85. His fourth daughter, Esther, married Jonathan Sewall; she was the worthy wife of an eminent man. Another daughter married gov. Hancock. He published a treatise on hemp husbandry, 1765. from his declaration in 1770-"I wish to see my countrymen break off—off forever!—all social intercourse with those, whose commerce contaminates, whose luxuries poison, whose avarice is insatiable, and whose unnatural oppressions are not to be borne." After what is called "the Boston massacre," March 5, 1770, when five citizens were killed by the British troops, Mr. Quincy, with John Adams, defended the prisoners, captain Preston and eight soldiers. Το undertake their defence QUINCY, Josiah, jun., an eminent against the remonstrance of his father patriot, was the grandson of judge Quin- and in resistance to the strong tide of cy; his father, Josiah, a merchant in Bos- popular indignation required a strong ton and a zealous friend of his country, love of justice and a fixed purpose of soul. died at Braintree in 1784, aged 75. He With great ability he plead their cause, was born Feb. 23, 1744. While at col- and the defence was closed by Mr. lege he was distinguished for unwearied Adams. In the result capt. Preston and industry, for the eager thirst for learning, 6 soldiers were acquitted, and 2 were conand for a refined taste. With unblemish-victed of manslaughter only. This aded reputation he was graduated in 1763. ministration of justice in the midst of an His legal studies were pursued for two excited and furious people was an event to the last drop of my blood.", Col. most honorable to Mr. Quincy and to the American cause. In 1771 and 1772 he continued his professional and political labors with accustomed industry and zeal; but in Feb. 1773 a pulmonary complaint compelled him to seek the renewal of his health or the preservation of his life by a voyage to Carolina. In Charleston he formed an acquaintance with the eminent lawyers and patriots of the day, who received him with the wonted southern hospitality,-with Bee, Parsons, Simpson, Scott, Charles C. Pinckney, Rutledge, Lynch, and others. He returned by land to New York. In Philadelphia he met with J. Dickinson, J. Reed, J. Ingersoll, Dr. Shippen, chief justice Allen, and his sons, and Mr. Galloway. His journal of this tour is found in his Life, published by his son. After an absence of 3 or 4 months he reached home, and soon wrote the bold essays under the title of Marchmont Nedham. His chief political work, Observations on the act of parliament, commonly called The Boston Port Bill,' with Thoughts on Ci-ergy and grace of a Demosthenes." In vil society and standing armies, was published in May 1774. ་ this speech Chatham said,-"For genuine sagacity, for singular moderation, for solBy the advice of his political friends id wisdom, manly spirit, sublime sentiand in the hope of rendering eminent ser- ments, and simplicity of language, for vice to his country by counteracting every thing respectable and honorable, Hutchinson and in other ways he relin- the congress of Philadelphia shine unriquished his professional business and em- valled. This wise people speak out. barked at Salem privately for London They do not hold the language of slaves; Sept. 28, 1774. His voyage was service- they tell you what they mean. They do able to his health. At London he had not ask you to repeal your laws as a favor; a conference on American affairs with they claim it as a right-they demand it. lord North, and explained to him his They tell you, they will not submit to views with great freedom; but the Brit- them; and I tell you, the acts must be ish minister seemed anxious to intimidate repealed; they will be repealed; you canone, who could not be reached in that not enforce them."-Lord Camden folway, by alluding to the power of Great lowed Chatham on the side of America Britain and her determination to exert it and equalled him in every thing, "excepto effect the submission of the colonies. ting his fire and pathos. In learning, He visited also lord Dartmouth, and lord perspicuity, and pure eloquence probably Shelburne and consulted much with Dr. no one ever surpassed lord Camden.” Franklin, gov. Pownall, Dr. Price, sher- He exclaimed-"This I will say, not oniff William Lee, Arthur Lee, and other ly as a statesman, politician, and philosofriends of America. He also occasionally pher, but as a common lawyer,--my attended the sitting of parliament. It lords, you have no right to tax America. was at this period, that lord Camden I have searched the matter; I repeat it, said, "Were I an American, I would resist you have no right to tax America ;-the |
