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owner of the house where our meetings 

 were held of one who afterwards at- 

 tained to some distinction, and rendered 

 considerable service to the Government 

 in the Colonies, and one of whom it 

 may be justly said that, for many ex- 

 cellent qualities, " we shall not look 

 upon his like again." 



He was in person above the common 

 size, tall and stout, well-made and 

 strongly knit, his figure, without being 

 graceful, exhibiting great bodily strength 

 and activity. Nature had endowed him 

 with an excellent constitution, and great 

 powers of endurance. Few could come 

 up to him in walking, running, jumping, 

 skating, or any commonly practised gym- 

 nastics. His countenance was in unison 

 with his frame ; for, without being hand- 

 some, it was expressive of quick deter- 

 mination and manly resolution ; while his 

 full, piercing gray eye, gleaming from an 

 iron complexion, surmounted by dark, 



