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ry ; and, surely, if his name, and deserving worth, be 

 any where entitled to consideration, it is here, and by 

 you. 



In reference to his individual history, I propose to be 

 brief and general, conscious that, although the partiality 

 of friends may dwell, with deep and intense interest, on 

 minute particulars, yet the atteation of the public, gen- 

 erally, ought rather to be directed to such facts, as may 

 instruct, by their practical application to the common af- 

 fairs of life. 



The subject of these remarks was born in Coventry, 

 in the State of Connecticut, on the fourth day of Janu- 

 ary, 1778. He was the last born, and the last that has 

 died, of a family of fourteen children. His father, Elias 

 Buel, held the commission of Major, in the War of our 

 Revolution, and was a fair sample of the plain, unas- 

 suming, straight-forward character of the New-England 

 farmer. 



As an instance, in proof that the end of the good man 

 is peace, it deserves to be mentioned, that the advanced 

 years and declining strength of this excellent sample of 

 New-England's earlier population, together with his aged 

 consort, received, for the last five years of their lives, 

 their stay and support from the filial affections of their 

 youngest child ; until, fully matured, arid at the advanced 

 age of eighty-six years, they both left this world ; and, as 

 if their union had become indissoluble by bonds that had 

 been tightened by nearly three fourths of a century, they 

 left it, within the brief period of six weeks of each other. 



From early boyhood, Judge Buel seems to have had 

 the direction of his own course ; his parents wisely leav- 

 ing, to his own disposition and inclinations, the choice of 

 that which should mainly constitute the business of his 

 life. In this, it is to be hoped they have many imitators. 

 Let young, unsophisticated Nature always speak its own 

 language, and follow its own original bias, and success 

 will be likely to reward its exertions. When he had ar- 

 rived at the age of twelve years, the family, including 

 himself, moved from Coventry to Rutland, Vermont, and, 

 two years afterwards, when he had completed the age of 



