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sympathy for teachers, and welcomed them as a body once a year to his home to meet him and his colleagues.

In 1852 he was elected Mayor of Norwich, and in that office was prompt and efficient in executing plans for the public good. He was Presidential Elector in 1872, and the following year his name was prominently mentioned by the Republicans as candidate for Governor.

Before confessing

Mr. Haven was an eminently religious man. Christ he received a note, in which was the single word, eternity. "That mighty thought was with him till he found and confessed the everlasting Son of the Father. But doubt succeeded faith. He went to the superintendent of the Sunday-school and laid bare his heart. 'Go to work,' was the counsel received. 'Where?' 'In Waterford,' was the reply. A man is coming in to get some one to start a Sunday-school there this very day.' In Waterford, therefore, he began to conduct that Gilead Sunday-school, which was his joy and crown for forty years."

He was a member of the committee for arranging the International Sabbath Lesson, and won the affection of his associates by his devout regard for inspired truth, and his deference to views at variance with his own. In 1875 he was appointed President of the American College and Education Society as the successor of Governor Buckingham. He loved to aid worthy young men from the forge or farm to the university and the school, and thence to the public teaching of the Book of Books. He began the day with secret prayer. He could recite whole chapters of the Bible by heart. He gave without ostentation, even to the third of his income. "Faults he had and lamented. Enemies might call him proud, opinionated, arbitrary; for a leonine temperament and a commanding personality are not slain by grace."

Mr. Haven married February 23, 1840, Elizabeth Lucas Douglas, of Waterford. They had four children.

JOSEPH HAWLEY.

MEMBER OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, 1775-*

JOSEPH HAWLEY, grandfather of Joseph, was a native of Roxbury, Mass., graduated at Harvard College in 1674; went to Northampton, became the grammar school teacher; Representative to the Legislature, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. "In Mr. Hawley's day, schools recited the catechism once a week, usually Saturday afternoon." Mr. Hawley married Lydia, daughter of Capt. Samuel Marshall, of Windsor, Conn., by whom he had seven children, four sons, and three daughters.

Joseph Hawley, father' of Joseph, was born in 1682, married at the age of forty, Rebecca Stoddard, the eleventh child of the second minister of Northampton.

Joseph Hawley, subject of this sketch, was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1724, died there May 10, 1788.

He graduated at Yale College in 1742, studied Theology and officiated as Chaplain in the provincial army. Turning his attention to the law, he entered upon an extensive practice, first in Hampshire County, and after the division in both Hampshire and Berkshire. He was also an able politician, and advocate of American liberty.

"From 1764 to 1776, he held a seat in the Legislature and was a member of all the important Committees of the time; in 1770 was chairman of the Committee on Correspondence; and was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775."

He was an opposer of Jonathan Edwards and effected his removal from Northampton, but afterwards became his warm

Clark's "Northampton Antiquities;" Lanman; "Works of Jonathan Edwards," London edition.

advocate, and in 1760 wrote a remarkable letter, deploring the part he had originally taken against him.

The letter referred to by Mr. Lanman, was published first in a weekly newspaper in Boston, May 9, 1760, and inserted in the "Works of Jonathan Edwards," London edition, vol. 1, p. 167.

Mr. Hawley writes as follows:

"To the Rev. Mr. HALL, of Sutton.

REV. SIR:

"NORTHAMPTON, May 9, 1760.

"I have often wished that every member of the two ecclesiastical councils, that formerly sat in Northampton, between our former most worthy and revered pastor, Mr. Jonathan Edwards, and the church here, whereof you were a member; I say, sir, I have often wished every one of them truly knew my real sense of my own conduct in that affair, that the one and the other of the said councils are privy to. . . . Although it does not become me to pronounce decisively, on a point so disputable as was then in dispute; yet I beg leave to say, that I really apprehend, that it is of the highest moment to the body of this church, and to me in particular, most solicitously to inquire, whether like the Pharisees and lawyers in John the Baptist's time, we did not reject the council of God against ourselves, in rejecting Mr. Edwards and his doctrine, which was the ground of his dismission. . . . I confess, sir, that I acted very immodestly and abusively to you, as well as injuriously to the church and myself, when with much zeal and unbecoming assurance, I moved the council that they would interpose to silence and stop you, in an address you were making one morning to the people, wherein you were, if I do not forget, briefly exhorting them to a tender remembrance of the former affection and harmony that had long subsisted between them and their revered pastor. . . . The most criminal part of my conduct af that time, that I am conscious of, was my exhibiting to that council a set of arguments in writing, the drift whereof was to prove the reasonableness and necessity of Mr. Edwards' dismission, in case no accommodation was then effected with mutual consent; which writing, by clear implication, contained some severe, uncharitable, and if I remember right, groundless and slanderous imputations on Mr. Edwards, expressed in bitter language. As to the church's remonstrance, as it was called, which their committee preferred to the last of the said councils; to all which I was consenting, and in the composing whereof I was very active, as also in bring ing the church to their vote upon it. . . . it was everywhere interlarded with unchristian bitterness, sarcastical and unmanly insinuations. . . . Another part of my conduct, for which I hereby declare my hearty sorrow, was my obstinate opposition to the last council's having any conference with the church, which the said council earnestly and repeatedly moved for, and which the church, as you know finally denied. I think it discovered a great deal of pride and vain sufficiency in the church, and showed them to be very opinionative, especially the chief sticklers, one of whom I was; and think it was running a most

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presumptuous risk, and acting the part of proud scorners, for us to refuse hearing, and candidly and seriously considering what that council could say or oppose to us; among whom, there were divers justly in great reputation for grace and wisdom.

"For all these my great sins, therefore, in the first place, I humbly and most earnestly ask forgiveness of God; in the next place of the relatives and near friends of Mr. Edwards. I also ask the forgiveness of all those who were called Mr. Edwards' adherents; and of all the members of the ecclesiastical councils above mentioned; and lastly, of all Christian people, who have had any knowledge of these matters. . .

"I beg leave to subscribe myself, sir

Your real, though very unworthy friend and obedient servant,

"JOSEPH HAWLEY."

In 1762, two years after this confession, Mr. Hawley was chosen deacon of the church at Northampton, and he served in this capacity twenty-six years.

The homestead, occupied by Mr. Hawley, continued in the family through three generations, almost one hundred and thirty years. His wife, Mercy Hawley, survived him on the place eighteen years. To Joseph Clarke, whom he had adopted and educated he made large bequests, expressing the hope that he would "prove worthy, honest, prudent, and a public-spirited man, and do good therewith in his day." He gave by will to Rev. John Hooker his folio volumes of Dr. Owen's works, and two folio volumes of Howe's works.

JOHN HAYNES.

GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT COLONY, 1639.*

MR. HAYNES was born in Essex County, England, died March 1, 1654.

He left an elegant country seat, named Copford Hall, and in 1632 came into New England with Rev. Mr. Hooker, and settled with him at Cambridge. In 1635 he served as Governor of Massachusetts.

In 1636 he removed to Connecticut, and was one of the five, who in 1638 drew up a written Constitution for the Colony. It was the first paper of the kind framed in America, and embodied the main points of subsequent State Constitutions, and of the Federal Constitution. The preamble and close of this instrument are as follows:

"Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty God, by the wise disposition of his divine providence, so to order and dispose of things, that we, the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, are now cohabiting, and dwelling in and upon the river of Connecticut, and the lands thereunto adjoining, and well knowing when a people are gathered together, the Word of God requires, that to maintain the peace and union of such a people, there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons, as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors, and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into combination and confederation together, to maintain and preserve

Drake; Barber's "Connecticut Historical Collections"; Trumbull's "History of Connecticut "; Mather's " Magnalia."