CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



PART I. fc 



FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS APPOINTMENT AS PROFESSOR IN YALE 

 COLLEGE. 



1779-1802. 

 CHAPTER I. 



HIS CHILDHOOD AND EARLY HOME. 



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His Birth. Origin of the Family. His Father. His Mother. 

 His Father's Capture by the British. An Early Journey to Ston- 

 ington. Anecdote of Dr. Franklin. Manners and Society in 

 New England. Death of his Father. His Early Religious Train 

 ing. The Assembly's Catechism. His First School. Slavery 

 in New England. His Preparation for College. Society in Fair- 

 field: Mr. Eliot; Mr. Burr; Dr. Dwight; Judge Sturges. His 

 Love of Natural Scenery 1 



CHAPTER II. 



A STUDENT IN YALE COLLEGE. 



His Admission to College. President Stiles. President Dwight. 

 His Studies. College Diary: His Anxiety to be cured of Faults; 

 Inauguration of Dr. Dwight; Recitations under Dr. Dwight; Situ 

 ation of College under the New President ; His Reading ; Dinner at 

 Dr. Dana's; His Desire of Knowledge; Thoughts about a Profes 

 sion . . .27 



CHAPTER III. 



A TEACHER : A STUDENT OF LAW, AND TUTOR IN COLLEGE. 



His Labors on the Farm at Home. Teaches School in Wethersfield. 

 Becomes a Law-Student in New Haven, and Tutor in Yale Col 

 lege. Letters of Rev. Dr. Marsh and Rev. Dr. Porter. His 



