APPENDIX. 



A. {Page 14.) 



HoN^. Benjamin Yaughan, LL. D,, was educated a physician, 

 though it is not known that he ever practiced medicine. In ear- 

 ly life he was a member of the British Parliament, but having 

 fallen under censure for his freely spoken republican opinions, 

 retired to France during the revolutionary war, where he be- 

 came intimate with Franklin and other Americans, then near 

 that Court. At the close of the war, he, with his younger 

 brother, Charles, emigrated to America, and having landed 

 property on the Kennebec, settled in Hallowell. Charles hav- 

 ing received a mercantile education, conimenced business with 

 enthusiasm and energy, designing to build up another Liverpool ; 

 he erected warehouses, built wharves, &c. But the country 

 was too new to sustain so extensive enterprises, and he was 

 unsuccessful in business. 



Dr. Vaughan, a man of wealth, science, and liberality, pur- 

 sued^ agriculture and horticulture as a matter of pleasure and 

 taste, ratlier than of profit. He imported trees, seeds, imple- 

 ments, and workmen, trained to their care and use. By some 

 who could not perceive why expense should be thus freely in- 

 curred without certain prospect of ample and immediate return 

 in money value, he was sneered at as a book farmer and vision- 

 ary schemer. Others more shrewd and considerate, looked on 

 with pleasure, and availed themselves of the advantages to be 

 derived from his liberal expenditures, importations, library, con- 

 versation, &c. At a later period, Charles imported sheep, 

 South Downs and New Leicesters, into Hallowell. The fi-uit of 

 tlieir labors is plainly visible throughout a large section. 



