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as principal of an academy. In 1819. he made a missionary tour in Virginia, and was chaplain of Hampden-Sidney for a year. In 1822 he held a charge in Cartersville, Virginia, and 1824 was made pastor of the churches of Bird and Providence, in Goochland county, Virginia, where he served until his death. He published a series of articles in the "Southern Religious Telegraph" on "Baptism," and "Sketches of Church History from the Birth of Christ to the Nineteenth Century," both of which afterward appeared in book-form. He died in Goochland county, Virginia, April 29, 1842.

Noble, James, born in Battletown, Frederick county, Virginia, about 1790. In youth he moved to Kentucky, but finally located in Indiana, where he acquired a good education through self-study and reading. He was one of the first United States senators sent from Indiana, serving from December 12, 1816, until his death in Washington. D. C., February 26, 1831.

Spencer, Pitman Curtius, born in Charlotte county. Virginia. in 1790: graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. and settling in Nottoway county, Virginia, practiced there for fifteen years, after which he went to Europe to pursue his studies. On his return he settled in Petersburg, and devoted himself to surgery. He was a successful lithotomist, and claimed to be the first to practice this branch of surgery in this country. He died in Petersburg. Virginia. in February, 1861.

MacRea, William, born in 1767; in 1791 was appointed from Virginia lieutenant of levies, and was wounded at Gen. Arthur St. Clair's defeat by the Miami Indians, November 4, 1791. He became captain in December, 1794. was transferred to the artillery in June, 1798; and promoted to major, Second Regiment of artillerists and engineers, July 31, 1800, and lieutenant-colonel, April 19, 1814. He was brevetted colonel "for ten years' faithful service," April 19, 1824. He died near Shawneetown, Illinois, November 3, 1832.

Mosby, Mary Webster, born in Henrico county, Virginia, in April, 1791. Left an orphan, she was adopted by her paternal grandfather, Robert Pleasants, a Quaker planter who had set free more than a hundred slaves. She was educated at a Friends' school, and married John Garland Mosby. She wrote for magazines over the signature of "M. M. Webster," and published "Pocahontas." treating of the legend of the Indian heroine, from whom, through her maternal grandfather, Thomas Mann Ran- dolph, she was a lineal descendant. She died at Richmond, Virginia, November 19, 1844.

Underwood, Joseph Rogers, born in Goochland county, Virginia, October 24, 1791. He was adopted by his maternal uncle, Edward Rogers, a revolutionary soldier who had settled in Kentucky in 1783. He attended different schools, and graduated from Transylvania College, in 1811. He pursued legal study in Lexington, Kentucky. In the war of 1812-14, he was the first volunteer in Col. William Dudley's regiment for service on the Canadian border. He was promoted to lieutenant, and when the captain of his company was killed, the command devolved upon him. Later in