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of the Legislature, representing Boston ; member of the- 

 governor's council ; member of Congress in the Senate 

 from 1800 to 1803 and in the House during two terms. 

 He owned a large farm in Brookline. 



AZOR ORNE (1731-1799) lived in Marblehead ; was a 

 member of the provincial and continental congresses, 

 major-general of militia in 1775 and 1776, member of 

 both branches of the Legislature and of the conventions 

 of 1780 and 1788. 



SAMUEL PHILLIPS (1751-1802) was a graduate of Har- 

 vard in 1771 ; a member of the provincial congress and 

 the constitutional convention ; a member of the State 

 senate, representing Essex, twenty years, and its president 

 from 1786 to 1801, and lieutenant governor in 1801 and 

 1802. He founded Phillips Academy in Andover. 



SAMUEL SALISBURY (1739-1818) was a prominent 

 merchant of Boston ; deacon of the Old South church,, 

 and lived in a fine mansion on Summer street about oppo- 

 site to Hawley street. 



DAVID SEARS (1752-1816) was a wealthy merchant in 

 Boston ; a patriot of the Revolution ; owned and fitted 

 out a privateer in 1779 ; was chairman of the committee 

 of merchants who built a frigate in 1798 as a gift to the 

 national government, his subscription to that end being 

 83,000 ; a director of the United States Bank, and owner 

 of territory thirty miles square in Maine, which includes 

 the present towns of Searsport and Searsmont. 



JAMES SULLIVAN (1744-1808) was a brother of Gen. 

 Sullivan of the army of the Revolution ; a lawyer by pro- 

 fession and an extensive farmer in York county, now in 

 Maine ; a member of the provincial congress ; of the con- 

 vention of 1780 ; of the Continental Congress in 1784-5 ; 

 judge of the superior and probate courts, and governor of 

 Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808. He was the king's 

 attorney in York county and later attorney general of the 

 State of Massachusetts, and held rank as a writer on legal, 

 political and historical subjects. 



