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Brooklyn 3d Pres. Ch. fr. Sundries

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Donation fr. J. H. Taylor, Life Director

100 00

2.50

Bleecker St. Ch. coll. by Rev. Mr. Patton
J. Aspinwall 20, C. Palmer 5

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Cash 5, R. M. Blatchford 10

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Bowery Ch. by Mr. Patton, coll.

20 81

23 43

Fr. W. A. and I. Bull

5 00--25 81

Central Pres. Ch. fr. R. L. Nevins

100 00

Miss M'Clenachan's school, a Christmas gift from the

Young Ladies

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Laight St. Ch. fr. A. R. Wetmore

100 00

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Donation of a stranger, a Christmas gift, by Rev.
Wm. Patton, D. D.

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Clothing received during the quarter ending
Jan. 11, 1837.

Boston, Ms. Mrs. Christian Baker, 6 yds. white flannel, and 6
pr. woollen socks, valued at $6.

Cohasset, Ms. Ladies' Miss. Soc. by Mrs. Studley, Tr. 10 shirts and 1 pr. socks.

Dover, N. H. Ladies' Benevo. Society, by Miss Elizabeth C.
Wheeler, Tr. 12 shirts, 7 collars, and 3 pr. socks, valued at
$13 50.

Dover, N. J. a few females, by Miss Caroline C. Allen, a box
of clothing valued at $63 56.
Hancock Factory Village, N. H. Ladies' Sewing Soc. by D.
Whittemore, 24 shirts, 13 pr. socks, 21 bosoms, 23 collars,
and 1 comfortable, valued at $31 66.

Holliston, Ms. Ladies, by Miss Irene Dickinson, 2 shirts and 4
pillow cases.

Leominster, Ms. Ladies' Aux. Ed. Soc. by Miss Susan Lincoln,

Tr. a bundle, valued at $7.

New Ipswich, N. H. Ladies' Reading and Char. Soc. by Miss
Hannah Johnson, Sec'ry, a box valued at $37 33.

North Rochester, Ms. 7 shirts, 13 collars, and 3
pr. socks.
Templeton, Ms. Ladies' Char. Soc. by Miss Almeda Cutting, Tr.

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a box, valued at $65.

East Hartford, bal. of subs. by Mr. J. O. Pit

kin

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Wenham, Ms. Fem. Read. and Char. Soc. by Mrs. Abigail
Foster, Tr. 16 collars and 2 pr. socks.

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REV. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT MOORE, D.D.

First Resident of Amherst College.

Pab for the American Quarterly Register.

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[Brief biographical notices of President Davies may be found in the preface to his sermons; in the funeral sermons of Drs. Gibbons and Finley, generally prefixed to the sermons of Davies; in the second volume of the Panoplist; Middleton's Evangelical Biography; Assembly's Missionary Magazine; State of Religion in Virginia; Rev. David Bostwick's account prefixed to Davies' sermon on the death of George II.; Appendix to Rev. Dr. Ashbel Green's Baccalaureate Addresses; and in President Allen's American Biographical Dictionary. The most copious and interesting biography is found in the second volume, 1819, of the Evangelical and Literary Magazine, published in Richmond, Va., and edited by the Rev. Dr. John H. Rice, afterwards professor of theology, in the Union Theological Seminary. This memoir was from the pen of the editor, and is the result of much careful inquiry by a man of a spirit remarkably kindred to the subject of his sketches. The Sabbath school book, published by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, is, for the most part, a selection from the biography by Dr. Rice. To Dr. Rice's Memoir we are indebted for most of the following statements. Dr. Green has furnished us with some important facts. We have, however, compared all the accessible notices on the subject. We have endeavored by correspondence to secure some original materials, but have been for the most part, disappointed in our efforts.EDITOR.]

SAMUEL DAVIES was born November 3d, 1724, in the county of Newcastle, in what is now the State of Delaware.* His father was a farmer of small property, of intellectual endowments rather below the ordinary level, of unpolished manners, but of a blameless and religious life. His mother was a woman of superior powers of mind, of affectionate disposition, and of ardent piety. Her first child was a daughter. Her anxiety to be instrumental in promoting the Redeemer's kingdom, induced her, like Hannah of old, earnestly to pray that God would bestow upon her the blessing of a She believed that the son whom she afterwards bore, was given to her in answer to her prayers, and she determined to devote him to the Lord, for the service of the sanctuary, all the days of his life. President Davies subsequently, in a letter to Dr. Gibbons of London, writes: "I was blessed with a mother whom I might account, without filial vanity or partiality, one of the most eminent saints I ever knew upon earth. I am a son of prayer, like my name-sake Samuel the prophet; and my mother

son.

Both his parents, it is supposed, were of Welsh descent. In Dr. Rice's memoir, it is stated that "the Christian names of his parents, we know not." Yet Dr. Finley's funeral sermon is dedicated to Mrs. Martha Davies, the mother, and to Mrs. Jean Davies, the widow, etc.

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