Colony, approaching a table surrounded by twenty Hessian officers, and without losing anything of his formal stiffness, pronouncing in a loud voice a long prayer in the form of a Benedicite. Let it not be imagined that he excites the laughter of his auditors; they are too well trained for that; you must on the contrary, figure to yourself twenty amens issuing at once from the midst of forty moustaches, and you will have some idea of the little scene. But M. de Lauzun is the man to relate, how this good, methodical Governor invariably says, that he will consider; that he must refer to his Council.”

The term "Brother Jonathan" as applied to the United States, is supposed to have originated in the expression sometimes used by Washington-"Let us hear what Brother Jonathan says."

Mr. Trumbull was married at the age of twenty-five, to Faith, seventeen years of age, daughter of Rev. John Robinson, of Duxbury, Mass., and great grand-daughter of the John Robinson who counselled emigration to the New World. "Mrs. Trumbull was for many years a professor of the religion of Jesus, and her charities were very numerous and very large. She neglected not the duties of her home. She had an excellent spirit of prudence and economy, and never ate the bread of idleness." On one occasion in Lebanon Meeting-House, after notice given that a collection would be taken for the soldiers of the Continental Army, Mrs. Trumbull rose from her seat near her husband, threw from her shoulders a scarlet cloak, and advancing near the pulpit, laid it down as her offering. The garment was cut into narrow strips, and used as red trimming for the dress of American soldiers.

They had six children, four sons and two daughters. Three of the sons were educated at Harvard College; the daughters were sent to a school in Boston. Writing to an instructor in 1753, Trumbull says: "I do not mean to send them to college to spend their time and my estate in a careless, idle and foolish

The children led an important career. Jonathan, named after his father, became Private Secretary to General Washington, United States Senator, and finally Governor of Connecticut. John became a noted artist,-executed historical paintings for the capitol at Washington, and those of the Trumbull Gallery.

HENRY VANE.

GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1636.*

HENRY VANE, father of Henry, born in 1589, was elected to Parliament from Carlisle in 1614. He married Frances, daughter of Thomas Darcy, and had a family of fourteen children.

Henry Vane, eldest child of Henry, was born in 1612, died by execution in London, June 14, 1662.

In early youth, according to his own confession, he was giddy, wild, and fond of good fellowship. About the fifteenth year of his age a change took place in his views and feelings, and "God was pleased to lay the foundation of repentance in him."

At the age of sixteen he entered Magdalen College, Oxford. His religious experience had alienated him from the doctrines and forms of the Church of England, and when the period of his matriculation arrived, he declined to take the oath of allegiance, and thus forfeited his membership at the institution.

Leaving Oxford, he spent a season in travel, and finally concluded to embark for America. He arrived at Boston in 1635. "His interesting demeanor and entire devotion to the cause of religion won the love and veneration of the pious Puritans."

In May, 1636, when but twenty-four years of age, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts. He supported the theological opinions of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, in opposition to John Winthrop and others, and his administration was brief.

He returned to England in the year 1637. To friends in America he wrote, sending the epistle by Roger Williams.

". . . . Something I hold myself bound to say to you out of the Christian love I bear you. How is it that there are such

Upham's "Life of Vane"; "Biographia Britannica"; Moore's "Governors of New Plymouth."

divisions amongst you, such headiness, disorder, tumults, injustice, the noise whereof echoes unto the ears of all, as well friends as enemies, by every return of ships from those parts? Is not the fear and awe of God amongst you to restrain? Is not the love of Christ in you, to fill you with yearning bowels one toward another . . . ? "

He was elected representative in Parliament from Kingstonupon-Hull, taking his seat April 13, 1640. Here he bore a conspicuous part in those measures which make prominent the cause of freedom and religion. His own safety he did not consult; what his enemies should think and determine, he did not regard. Against the arbitrary measures of the king he took an open stand, and conflict ensued.

He was arraigned before the Court of King's Bench for trial June 2, of the year 1662; the verdict of guilty was rendered on the 6th; sentence was pronounced on the 11th; and on the 14th he was executed on Tower Hill.

On the day before his execution he remarked: "My impris onment and hard usage from men have driven me nearer to God. . . . . The more I have been shut up on earth, and from earthly relations and enjoyments, the more have the heavens opened upon me, and let down to me the large sights and tastes of the glory and enjoyments of the world to come."

Early in the forenoon on the day of his execution, his wife, children and friends were assembled in the prison. He offered up a prayer in which were these petitions;

"Strengthen the faith and heart of thy poor servant, that he may undergo this day's work with joy and gladness. . . . . Let my poor family that is left desolate, let my dear wife and children be taken into thy care; be Thou a Husband, Father and Master to them."

On taking farewell of his family he was heard to say:

"There is some flesh remaining yet; but I must cast it behind me, and press forward to my Father."

On his removal from the prison to the place of execution, silence being commanded by the Sheriff, he gave an address to the people. He then offered up a prayer which embraced the following: