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. GERSHOM 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 beatæ 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,

1723, and died June, 1731. He was married in 1720 to PATIENCE, daughter of John and Sarah Prentice of New London, and was the father of twelve children. He wrote, 1. A Preface to R. Wolcott's "Meditations." 2. An Election Sermon in 1713, entitled "The Necessity of Religion in Societies." In 1724 he published an "Inquiry into the Right of the Aboriginal Natives to the Lands in America." In 1729 he published another tract, entitled "An Impartial Account of a late Debate at Lyme upon the following points: Whether it be the will of God that the Infants of Visible Believers should be baptized; Whether Sprinkling be lawful and sufficient; and, whether the present way of maintaining ministers, by a public rate or tax, be lawful.” Dr. Chauncy thus writes concerning him :

"Mr. John Bulkley I have seen and conversed with, though so long ago that I form no judgment of him from my own knowledge. Mr. Whittlesey of Wallingford, Mr. Chauncy of Durham, and others I could mention, ever spoke of him as a first-rate genius; and I have often heard that Dummer and he, who were classmates in college, were accounted the greatest geniuses of that day. The preference was given to Dummer in regard of quickness, brilliancy and wit; to Bulkley in regard of solidity of judgment and strength of argument. Mr. Gershom Bulkley, father of John, I have heard mentioned as a truly great man, and eminent for his skill in chemistry; and the father of Gershom, Mr. Peter Bulkley of Concord, was esteemed in his day as one of the greatest men in this part of the world. But by all that I have been able to collect, the Colchester Bulkley surpassed his predecessors in the strength of his intellectual powers."

"Mr. Bulkley was classed by the Rev. Dr. Chauncy, in 1768, among the three, most eminent for strength of genius and powers of mind, which New England had produced. The other two were Mr. Jeremiah Dummer and Mr. Thomas Walter."

The following humorous story concerning him is from an ancient publication, quoted in BARBER'S Historical Collections of Connecticut:

"The Rev. Mr. Bulkley of Colchester, Conn., was famous in his day as a casuist and sage counsellor. A church in the neighborhood had fallen into unhappy divisions and contentions,

which they were unable to adjust among themselves. They deputed one of their number to the venerable Bulkley for his advice, with the request that he would send it to them in writing. It so happened that Mr. Bulkley had a farm in an extreme part of the town, upon which he intrusted a tenant. In superscribing the two letters, the one for the church was directed to the tenant, and the one for the tenant, to the church. The church was convened in order to hear the advice which was to settle all their disputes. The moderator read as follows: You will see to the repair of the fences, that they be built high and strong, and you will take special care of the old black bull.' This mystical advice puzzled the church very much at first, but an interpreter among the more discerning ones was soon found, who said, 'Brethren, this is the very advice which we most need; the direction to repair the fences is to admonish us to take good heed in the admission and government of our members; we must guard the church by our master's laws, and keep out strange cattle from the fold. And we must in a particular manner set a watchful guard over the devil, the old black bull, who has done so much harm of late.'

"All perceived the wisdom and fitness of Mr. Bulkley's advice, and resolved to be governed by it. The consequence was, that all the animosities subsided and harmony was restored to the afflicted church. What the subject of the letter sent to the tenant was, and what good effect it had upon him, the story does not tell."