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A brief notice of Rev. Mr. Chandler was given. Rev. 

 Samuel Chandler was the son of Josiah Chandler of Ando- 

 ver, where he was born in 1713, graduated at Harvard Col- 

 lege in the class of 1735, ordained minister of the church 

 in York, Maine, in 1742, where he remained, occasionally 

 teaching a school in addition to his ministerial duties, till 

 his removal to Gloucester in 1751. In 1755, he went as 

 Chaplain to Col. Ichabod Plaisted's Regiment, in the expe- 

 dition against Crown Point. He died after a long and 

 severe sickness, on the 16th of March. 1775, aged sixty-two. 



Mr. David Nichols presented to the Institute, two photo- 

 graphs of Washington ; one, of a small size for albums the 

 other considerably larger for framing. He then gave a brief 

 history of the original from which these photographic copies 

 were obtained ; it has been in his wife's family for many 

 yoars, and is presumed to be the only one of the kind known. 

 Upon removing it from the frame recently, the following 

 endorsement was found upon the back : " This was done 

 iu New York, 1790, and is acknowledged by all to be a very 

 strong likeness. B. GOODHUE." Benjamin Goodhue was a 

 native of Salem, son of Benjamin and Martha (Hardy) 

 Goodhue, born Sept. 20, 1748, graduate of Harvard in the 

 class of 1766 ; first Representative to Congress from this 

 district, and was a member of that body as a Representative 

 or Senator from 1789 to 1800. This portrait was shown to 

 many aged persons, who had seen and might remember 

 Washington's appearance, and they all coincided in the 

 opinion of its correctness so far as the recollection of nearly 

 three quarters of a century could be relied upon. Letters 

 were read from the venerable Josiah Quincy ex-President 

 of Harvard University, Jared Sparks, Esq.. and others, in 

 relation to the subject. 



