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by giving the names of our early statesmen, not celebrated as warriors. 

 John Winthrop, historian, and governor of Massachusetts, died in 

 1649; John Winthrop, governor of Connecticut, died in 1676; and 

 Roger Williams, governor of Rhode Island, died in 1683. Lord 

 Delaware, governor of Virginia, died in 1618 ; and Leonard Calvert, 

 first governor of Maryland, died in 1676. William Penn, the first 

 governor of Pennsylvania, died in 1718 ; William Burnet, governor 

 of New York, and afterwards of Massachusetts, died in 1729 ; James 

 Logan, governor of Pennsylvania, died in 1751 ; and Thomas 

 Hutchinson, historian, and governor of Massachusetts, died in 1780. 

 Of military men, in the Indian and French wars, Capt. John Smith* 

 historian, and president of Virginia, died in 1631 ; Capt. John Mason, 

 of Connecticut, leader in the Pequot war, died in 1673 ; Capt. Miles 

 Standish, of Plymouth, in 1656 ; Capt. Daniel Henchman, of Mas- 

 sachusetts, celebrated in King Philip's war, died in 1675 ; and CapU 

 Samuel Wadsworth, of Massachusetts, was slain in 1676. General 

 William Phipps, of Massachusetts, died in 1695; General William 

 Pepperell, of Massachusetts, in 1759; General William Shirley f 

 governor of Massachusetts, died in 1771 ; and General William 

 Johnson, of New York, died in 1774. 



Of the statesmen of the Revolution, Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, 

 first president of the Continental Congress, died in 1775 ; John Han- 

 cock, of Massachusetts, its second president, died in 1793 ; Henry 

 Laurens, of South Carolina, its third president, died in 1792 ; and 

 John Jay, of New York, its fourth president, who was afterwards 

 first chief justice of the United States, died in 1829. Of the remain- 

 ing presidents of that Congress, Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut,, 

 died in 1796; Thomas MK'ean, of Pennsylvania, in 1817; John 

 Hanson, of Maryland, in 1783 ; Elias Boudinot, of Pennsylvania, 

 in 1821 ; Thomas Mifffin, of Pennsylvania, in 1800 ; Richard 

 Henry Lee, the orator, of Virginia, in 1794 ; Nathaniel Gorham, 

 of Massachusetts, in 1796 ; Arthur St. Clair, of Pennsylvania, in 

 1818 ; and Cyrus Griffin, of Pennsylvania, died in 1810. Josiah 

 Quincy, the orator, of Massachusetts, died in 1775 : and James Otis, 

 another patriot and orator, of Massachusetts, died in 1783. Benjamin 

 Franklin, the patriot and philosopher, died in 1790. Patrick Henry, 

 the orator, and governor of Virginia, died in 1799. Samuel Mams, 

 of Massachusetts, and Edmund Pendlcton, of Virginia, died in 1803 ; 

 Arthur Middleton, of South Carolina, in 1787; and Edward Rut- 

 ledge, of South Carolina, in 1800. Fisher Ames, the orator, of 

 Connecticut, died in 1808; Robert R. Livingston, of New York, 

 died in 1813 ; and Edmund Randolph, of Virginia, in the same year. 

 Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania, the financier, died in 1806. John 

 Adams, of Massachusetts, second president of the United States ; 

 and Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, the third president, both died 

 July 4, 1826. Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, the second chief 

 justice of the United States, died in 1807; and George Clinton, of 

 New York, vice president of the United States, after Adams, Jefferson, 

 and Burr, died in 1812. John Marshall, of Virginia, the historian,- 

 and third chief justice of the United States, died in 1836. 



Of statesmen of the Revolution who were also distinguished in 

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