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VII. 



Memoir nf Dmni'l 'I'rrnrhiwll 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 distrihdes its quarto publications as often as separate mono- 

 graphs are printed. There has- been some confusion in the 

 designations and numbers on the covers of the several parts 

 of Vol. XL, noil! completed ; hid the page numbers are 

 correct, and these alone should be followed in binding. 



V, 1791, in Ipswicli, one of 

 ^Y, Captain Jabez Treadwell, 

 st settlers of the town, Avfio 

 nd. His mother, Elizabeth 

 )svvich and Priscilla Kakei% 

 s, — "a gentleman," says 

 Iliain in Essex, England." 

 in 1854 is the following 



" My father and all his ]iii d. , , ^us to tjie first si(ilii- were farmers, — hard-working and 

 respectable men, none of wiiom have left any distinguishing mark either of their virtues or 

 rices upon the community in wliicli they lived. My motlier, Elizaljcth Dodge, was the second 

 wife of my father, and died when I was two years old, leaving me and two older brotiiers (Isaac 

 Dodge and Jaljez), the oldest of eight years, without any female relation to care for us. My 

 early years were therefore, no doubt, much neglected, as my father's housekeepers, however 

 well disposed, possessed neither the education nor the affection required to make the most 

 of a child, and my father, who was fifty-two years old at tlie time of my Ijirth, was much 

 occupied in the care of his farm. !My father — I can remember him well, although he died 

 wlien I was but eleven years old — was a staid and sensible man, — a model farmer, exact 

 and punctual in all his affairs. The active period of his life fell upon the hard times of 

 the Revolution, during the greater part of which his three brothers were engaged in the army. 

 Of the bravery of one of these brotiiers. Captain William Treadwell of tlie Artillery, I remem- 

 ber hearing many stories when I was a boy. My father by his industry and prudence, with 

 but little assistance from his sons, acquired a property in land which at the time of iiis 

 death was valued at about seven tliousanrl dollars. I was fdaced at my father's death under 

 the guardianship of Colonel Nathaniel Wade, an old Revolutionary soldier, wlio was nmch es- 

 teemed in Ipswich for his honesty and good sense, and went to board in his family." * 



* The care and kindDess of Colonel Wade were always Iji-Id in grateful remembrance. In Mr. Treadwcll's 

 will, made in 1819 just before sailing for Europe, after a bequest to the (L-iiigbter of Nathaniel Wade, is tliis 

 item : " To Nathaniel Wade, Esq. (as a token of my esteem for this respectable man, who has fw. long extended 



