York city. He made during his ministry two visits to England and Scotland, on each occasion on a mission from Yale College to procure aid in books for that Institution, in the success of which he always felt a deep interest. In both of these missions he was successful, and was well entitled to the gratitude of the College.

He preached a sermon at his own ordination, to which was prefixed a preface by the Rev. Timothy Edwards of Windsor, from the text, "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." The doctrine he derived from the text was, "All such persons as name the name of Christ are thereby obliged to depart from iniquity. In exhibiting the doctrine he remarked that he should pursue this method :

"I. I shall endeavor to show what is included in our naming the name of Christ.

II. I shall consider what it is to depart from iniquity.

III. I shall show what obligation lies upon all such as name the name of Christ to depart from iniquity, and

IV. I shall briefly apply the whole."

The Sermon bears the marks of an earnest, vigorous mind, and of devoted piety.

He published, also, a pamphlet on Episcopacy, against Dr. Johnson and Mr. Beach, in 1732, and a Rejoinder to Dr. Johnson's Answer; also, a Sermon preached at Coventry at the ordination of Nathan Strong, 1745; and an Answer to Mr. Gale's pamphlet, entitled, "A calm and full vindication, &c., relating to Yale College."

The first wife of Rev. John Graham was LovE SANBORN of Exeter, N. H.

His second wife was ABIGAIL CHAUNCY, daughter of Rev. Isaac Chauncy of Hadley, who has already been mentioned. His children were:

I. JOHN, who was graduated at Yale College, 1740, and was settled in West Suffield, Conn., and died 1796. He was the father of the late SYLVESTER GRAHAM of Northampton, a noted lecturer on health and temperance, who died in 1851, aged 56.

II. ROBERT, the eldest child of his second wife, Abigail Chauncy, was educated as a physician, and practised with success and

ability.

He resided at White Plains, and was Judge of the Common Pleas and of the Admiralty Court.

III. CHAUNCY, who was educated at Yale College, 1747, and was settled in the ministry in Fishkill, N. Y., and died 1784.

IV. ANDREW, who was educated as a physician, and attained great celebrity in his profession. He died in Southbury, 1785. He was the father of JOHN A. GRAHAM, LL. D., of Vermont and New York, who died in 1841.

V. EIZABETH, who married DANIEL BALL.

VI. LOVE. She married, first, JOHN BRINKERHOFF; second, Rev. JONATHAN LEE, the first minister of Salisbury. He was born, 1718, in Coventry, Conn.; was graduated at Yale College, 1742; studied theology under the direction of Rev. Solomon Williams of Lebanon; was settled at Salisbury, November 23, 1744. He was an animated and popular preacher. He had by his wife Love, two sons, CHAUNCY and ROBERT WALKER, and one daughter, Love.

CHAUNCY LEE graduated at Yale College, 1784; studied law in Sharon under John Canfield, Esq., in company with the late John Cotton Smith; opened a law office in Salisbury, his native town; afterwards studied theology with the Rev. Dr. West in Stockbridge; was settled in Sunderland, Vt., March 18, 1790; was installed in Colebrook, Ct., in January, 1800; was installed pastor of the church in Marlborough, November 18, 1828, where he continued till January 11, 1837. After this he resided with a son in Hartwick, N. Y. till his death, which occurred in December, 1842. He died at the age of 79. He was a man of bright parts, of great liveliness of mind, was an agreeable companion, was a faithful and devoted pastor. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia College, N. Y., 1824.

He published the American Accountant; An Arithmetic; The Trial of Virtue, a Metrical Version of the Book of Job; An Election Sermon, 1813; A Sermon on the death of A. R. ROBBINS, 1813; Sermons designed for Revivals, 1824; Letters from Aristarchus to Philemon, 1833; many pieces of music.

Dr. Lee married, first, ABIGAIL STAUNTON of Salisbury. She died 1805. By this marriage he had two sons and a daughter. One of them, CHAUNCY GRAHAM, was graduated in Middlebury College, 1817, and has since been settled in the ministry. His

second wife was Mrs. OLIVE SPENCER of Amenia, N. Y. She died 1818. By this marriage he also had two sons and a daughter. His third wife was Mrs. REBECCA GREEN of New London, whom he married in 1818.

VII. SARAH, who married GIDEON HURD.

VIII. ABIGAIL, who died young.

IX. RICHARD CROUCH, who was graduated at Yale College, 1760; was settled in the ministry at Pelham, Mass.; died 1771. X. ABIGAIL, who married JOHN HINMAN.

Many of the descendants of John Graham and Abigail Chauncy, his wife, have been distinguished for talents, integrity and usefulness. Among these should be mentioned ISAAC GILBert GRAHAM, M. D., a Surgeon in the Revolutionary War. JOHN A. GRAHAM, LL. D. JOHN A. GRAHAM, Post Captain in the United States Navy. Col. JOHN LORIMER GRAHAM, formerly Post Master of the city of New York.

SARAH CHAUNCY.

SARAH CHAUNCY, the eldest daughter of President Chauncy, was born at Ware, England, June 13, 1631, and baptized on the 22d. She was admitted to the church in Cambridge, December 10, 1656. She was married, October 26, 1659, to the Rev. GERSHOм BULKLEY, Son of Rev. Peter Bulkley of Concord, Mass., who was educated at Cambridge, England, was a Fellow in St. John's College, and was distinguished for his learning, his piety and usefulness as a minister, and for his talents as a theologian and a poet. She died June 9, 1699.

Rev. GERSHOM BULKLEY was born at Concord, Mass., December, 1636. His mother, GRACE CHITWOOD, daughter of Sir Richard Chitwood, was a lady highly accomplished, and of a superior education. At the age of fourteen he entered Harvard College, and was graduated before he completed his nineteenth year, in 1655. He probably pursued his classical studies before entering college, and his theological education afterwards, with his father. He was settled over the church in New London, Conn., according to one authority, about 1658, and, according to another, in 1661. He remained until 1666 or 7, when he took a dismission and went to Wethersfield. Here he was installed as successor of Rev. John Russell, who had removed to Hadley, Mass. After preaching in Wethersfield about eleven years he was dismissed, at his own request, on account of ill health.

After this Mr. Bulkley, having devoted himself to the medical profession, commenced the practice of physic in Glastenbury, and soon acquired a high reputation in his new profession. In the war with the Naragansett Indians he was appointed surgeon to the army in 1675, and served under Major Talcott, who had the command of the troops raised by the Colony. On one occasion, while the troops were in pursuit, of the enemy, he was attacked by a number of Indians, near Wachuset in Massachusetts, and was wounded in the thigh.

After a life of benevolent and useful efforts he died December 2, 1713, aged 77 years and 11 months. The following is the inscription on his monument: "He was honorable in his descent;

of rare abilities; extraordinary industry, excellent learning, master of many languages, exquisite in his skill in divinity, physic and law, and of a most exemplary and christian life. In certam spem beata resurrectionis repositus."

The Hon. Isaac Stewart of Hartford, who married a descendant, writes me, that he has in his possession manuscript briefs for law cases, manuscript medical prescriptions, and manuscript sermons, all in the hand-writing of Mr. Bulkley.

In the Queen of England's State Paper Office is a manuscript volume prepared by him. A copy of this work has been procured, through the agency of Henry Stevens, Esq., and is now in the Library of the Historical Society in Hartford, Conn. It was written for the use of the British ministry against the chartered rights of Connecticut. The title-page is as follows: "WILL And Doom, or the Miseries of Connecticut, under a Usurped and Arbitrary Power; being a narration of the first erection, and exercise, but especially of the late changes and administration of Government in their Majesties Colony of New England in North America, 1689." In the same year he published a pamphlet on the affairs of Connecticut, but no copy is known to exist in this country.

The children of Gershom and Sarah Chauncy Bulkley were: I. CATHARINE, who married Richard Treat of Wethersfield. She died before her father, leaving one child, CATHARINE, born August 26, 1706, who married SAMUEL DEMING of Wethersfield, June 16, 1726.

II. DOROTHY, who married THOMAS TREAT of Glastenbury, Conn., July 5, 1693.

III. CHARLES, who was licensed to practise medicine in New London by the County Court, 1687. He lived and died in New London. Capt. CHARLES BULKLEY, who died in 1848, at 95 years of age, and LEONARD BULKLEY, who died in 1849, and left the bulk of his estate to found a free school for boys, were descendants of Dr. Charles, the son of Gershom Bulkley.

IV. PETER, lost at sea.

V. EDWARD, lived in Wethersfield.

VI. JOHN was graduated at Harvard College in 1699. Was ordained as the minister of Colchester, Conn., December 20,