This excellent man, and undeviating patriot, died in Norwich, on the 5th January, 1796.

Governor Huntington was a man of profound thought and penetration, of great prudence and practical wisdom, of patient investigation, and singular perseverance, and of distinguished moderation and equanimity.

His deportment in domestic life was excellent; his temper serene; and his disposition benevolent. He was of a cheerful and social disposition; of great simplicity and plainness of manners; and as a professor of christianity, he was exemplary and devout.

HOPKINS, SAMUEL, DD. an eminent divine, from whom the christians, called Hopkinsians, derive their name, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, September 17, 1721. At the age of sixteen, he entered Yale college, and was graduated in September, 1741.

In December following, he went to Northampton, Massachusetts, to pursue the study of divinity with the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. After he was licensed to preach in May, 1742, he still continued at Northampton, engaged in his theological studies, and preaching occasionally in the neighbouring towns. In December, 1743, he was ordained pastor of the church at Great Barrington, at which place he preached for more than twenty-five years. He was afterwards invited to Newport, RhodeIsland, by the people of the first congregational church, and was ordained their minister in 1770, over which he presided until the day of his death, December 20, 1803, in the eighty-third year of his age.

(Dr. Hopkins was a man of great abilities in his profession, a profound metaphysician, eminent as a

writer of polemic divinity, but more eminent as the head of a denomination of christian professors, which have greatly increased in New-England.

He published several valuable works, among which his "System of Doctrines," contained in divine revelation, explained and defended, to which is added a Treatise on the Millennium, 2 volumes, 8vo. ranks highest, and on which his reputation principally rests.

/ HALL, LYMAN, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, was born in Connecticut about the year 1731, where he received a classical education, and commenced the study of medicine. In 1752, he married and removed to South Carolina. During the same year he again changed his residence, and established himself at Sunbury, Georgia, where he commenced the practice of physic.

On the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he engaged warmly in the cause of his country, and in consideration of his eminent services, he was elected a delegate to the general congress of 1775.)

On the 20th May, 1776, Mr. Hall, on his arrival to congress, presented new credentials from the convention of Georgia, confirming the re-election of Messrs. Houston, Bullock, and himself, and the addition of George Walton and Button Gwinnett to the delegation. The appointment of Mr. Bullock to the presidency of the provincial council prevented him from proceeding to congress. Mr. Houston was directed, by a resolution of that body, to return to Georgia on public business in June, 1776; hence only three members from that state

were present at the signing of the declaration of independence.

Mr. Hall was re-elected to congress a third time; and in 1780, he made his final appearance as a national legislator. In 1783, he was elected governor of the state. / He afterwards retired from public life, and died about the sixtieth year of his age./ Although Mr. Hall does not appear to have acted a very conspicuous part in the proceedings of congress, yet he possessed strong powers of mind, and was peculiarly fitted to flourish in the perplexing and perilous scenes of the revolution./

HEATH, WILLIAM, a major-general in the American army, during the revolutionary war, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, about the year 1737.

At an early period of the contest of the colonies with Great-Britain, he was an active officer of the militia, and in consideration of his zeal and patriotism in the cause of liberty, he was appointed by the provincial congress, in 1775, a brigadiergeneral.

In August, 1776, he was by congress promoted to the rank of major-general in the continental army.

From 1777, to 1778, he was the commanding officer of the eastern department, and on him was devolved the arduous and responsible duty of keeping in charge the officers and troops captured at Saratoga. In all his proceedings with these turbulent captives, he supported the authority of congress, and the honour and dignity of his office. In the most interesting and critical circumstances in which a general could possibly be placed, he uniformly exhibited a prudence, animation, decision, and firmness, which have done him honour, and fully justified the confidence reposed in him. In

consideration of his faithful performance of this trust, he was appointed by congress in 1779, a commissioner of the board of war.

In 1780, he was directed by general Washington to repair to Rhode-Island, to make arrangements for the reception of the French fleet and army.

In May, 1781, he was directed by the commander-in-chief to repair to the New-England states, to represent to their respective executives the distressing condition of our army, and to solicit a speedy supply of provisions and clothing, in which he was successful.

As senior major-general, he was more than once commander of the right wing of our army, and during the absence of the commander-in-chief, at the siege of Yorktown, he was entrusted with the command of the main army posted at the highlands, and vicinity. On hostilities having ceased between the two armies, general Washington, in 1784, addressed a letter to general Heath, expressing his thanks for his meritorious services, and his real affection and esteem.

Immediately after the close of the war, general Heath was called again into public service in civil life, and continued to hold a seat in the legislature of Massachusetts till 1793, when he was appointed by governor Hancock, judge of probate for the county of Norfolk. He was also a member of the state convention which ratified the federal constitution.

In 1806, he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, but declined accepting the honour. He was more than once an elector of president and vice-president of the United States.

He died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 24, 1814, aged seventy-seven years,

HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, was born in Philadelphia, about the year 1737.

On receiving the honours of the college of Philadelphia, he commenced the study of the law, and in a few years rose to distinguished eminence in his profession.

With talents, ample, quick, and versatile, he cultivated not only the lighter accomplishments, but was skilled in many of the practical and useful sciences.

Soon after he had completed his course of professional studies, he was called into active life; and in the year 1761, officiated as secretary in a solemn conference held with the Indians by order of the government of Pennsylvania.

In 1765, he visited England; but as soon as the clouds began to gather round our political horizon, and the unjustifiable oppressions of the British government became more daring and decided, glowing with love of country, and feeling in unison with his fellow citizens a becoming indignation at the rapid encroachments of an usurped power, he immediately embarked for America, and on his arrival, he employed his pen in support of his oppressed country.

In 1776, he was elected a delegate to congress from the state of New-Jersey, and participated largely in the proceedings of that enlightened assembly, and afterwards affixed his name to the ever memorable declaration of independence. He was afterwards appointed judge of the admiralty for the state of Pennsylvania. This office he held until 1790, when he received the appointment of judge of the district court. In each of these judicial offices he conducted himself with integrity and ability.

He was an active and useful member of the great parties which, at different times, divided his native state. He was a whig, a republican, and a fede