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to that end being $3,000; 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 profession and an extensive farmer in York county, 

 now in Maine; a member of the provincial congress; 

 of the convention of 1780; of the Continental Con- 

 gress in 1784-5; judge of the superior and probate 

 courts, and governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 

 1808. He v/as 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 his- 

 torical subjects. 



Cotton Tufts (1734-1815) was bom in Medford 

 and resided and practiced as a physician in Weymouth. 

 He prepared the stamp act resolutions of that town 

 in 1765; represented the town in the General Court 

 and was president of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society. 



Charles Vaughan (1759-1839) was a prominent 

 merchant in Boston for a considerable period. He was 

 a brother-in-law of Charles Bulfinch, shared in the 

 Tontine Building enterprise, and was an energetic and 

 persevering man in whatever he undertook. He was a 

 trustee of the Society as it was originally organized 

 and was not absent from any of the monthly meetings 

 of the board, excepting twice or thrice, until his resig- 

 nation and removal from Boston in 1799. He was a 

 large land owner at Hallowell, then in this State, and 

 built wharves, warehouses, dwellings and mills there 

 immediately upon his removal thither, and also partly 

 built a town on the river below Bath. These enter- 

 prises proved on the whole to be unprofitable, but he 



