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1776. He was a ship's surgeon in the Revolutionary war 

 and was captured by the British. He also served in the 

 army called out to suppress Shay's rebellion. He was pro- 

 fessor in chemistry and materia medica at the college for 

 many years and later was president of the Middlesex Canal 

 corporation and prominent in various societies. He owned 

 a farm in Chelsea where the Marine Hospital now is. 



THOMAS DURFEE (1721-1796) was born in Tiverton now 

 Fall River. He had a farm of 750 acres there. He was a 

 representative of the town several years, senator 13 years, 

 of the governor's council six years, a judge in Bristol 

 county, member of the constitutional convention of 1788, an 

 active patriot in the Revolution and personal friend of La- 

 fayette. 



MOSES GILL (1733-1800) was born in Charlestown and 

 resided in Princeton, and was a farmer there. He was a 

 member of the provincial congress of 1774, senator in 1789, 

 lieutenant governor in 1794 and acting governor from June 

 1799 to May 1800. 



CHRISTOPHER GORE (1758-1827) was the son of an opu- 

 lent Boston merchant ; graduate of Harvard College in 

 1776, appointed by Washington the first district attorney 

 of Massachusetts ; commissioner in England to settle 

 treaty claims in 1796 ; charge d'affaires in London in 1803 f 

 governor of Massachusetts in 1809 ; at different times 

 member of both branches of the Legislature ; senator in 

 Congress from 1813 to 1816; donor of $100,000 to Har- 

 vard College. Gore Hall is at Cambridge named in his 

 honor. 



BENJAMIN GUILD (1749-1792) was a graduate of Har- 

 vard in 1769 ; tutor there from 1776 to 1780 ; a preacher 

 for a while ; kept a book store in Cornhill ; married Col. 

 Josiah Quincy's daughter. 



STEPHEN HIGGINSON (1743-1828) was born in Salem, 

 and was a merchant there ; when in London 1774-5 he was 

 called to the bar of the House of Commons and questioned 

 as to the state ^of things in Massachusetts ; he was delegate 



