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in 17 76. 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 professor 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 Tiver- 

 ton 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 Revolu- 

 tion and personal friend of Lafayette. 



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 act- 

 ing governor from June 1799 to May 1800. 



Christopher Gore (1758-1827) was the son of an 

 opulent Boston merchant; graduate of Harvard Col- 

 lege in 1776, appointed by Washington the first dis- 

 trict attorney of Massachusetts; commissioner in 

 England to settle treaty claims in 1796; charge 

 d'affaires in London in 1803; governor of Massachu- 

 setts in 1809; at different times member of both 

 branches of the Legislature ; senator in Congress from 

 1813 to 1816; donor of $100,000 to Harvard College. 

 Gore Hall is at Cambridge named in his honor. 



Benjamin Guild (1749-1792) was a graduate of 

 Harvard 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 



