nous vegetables of Scotland. In 1765, he returned to New-York, and commenced the practice of medicine in connexion with his father. On the establishment of the medical school in New-York, in 1768, Dr. Bard was appointed to teach the theory and practice of physic. At the first commencement held in 1769, Dr. Bard delivered an address to the first medical graduates; and while he discoursed upon the duties of a physician, he at the same time urged the necessity and importance of an hospital; So great was the effect produced by this discourse, that on the very day on which it was delivered, eight hundred pounds sterling was subscribed towards its erection.

On the commencement of hostilities in 1776, the operations of the medical school was necessarily suspended. On the restoration of peace, after several abortive attempts to revive it, the trustees of Columbia college resolved to place it upon a permanent foundation, by annexing in 1792, the faculty of physic to that institution. Dr. Bard was continued as the professor of the theory and practice of medicine, and was afterwards appointed dean of the faculty. The New-York dispensary, and the city library, are very much indebted to his active exertions. In 1795, he took Dr. Hosack into partnership; and in 1798, retired into the country, where he zealously engaged in the pursuits of agriculture. In 1806, he was elected president of the agricultural society of Dutchess county. In 1811, he was elected an honorary member of the college of physicians of Philadelphia. In 1813, on the establishment of the college of physicians and surgeons, in the city of New-York, he was chosen its president, and retained the office until his death.

In 1816, the degree of doctor of laws was conferred on him by Princeton college.

Dr. Bard closed his valuable, exemplary, and christian life, on the 25th May, 1821, at the advanced age of 79.-In whatever light the character of Dr. Bard

may be viewed, it must elicit admiration, and exhibit itself in the commanding attitude of a model. As a president of the college of physicians and surgeons, Dr. Bard presided over the destinies of medical science with a dignity and impartiality, which commanded the respect of all.

As a professor, Dr. Bard deservedly ranks among the first whom this country has produced. Profoundly versed in the department, which it was his province to teach, he communicated to his pupils the lessons of wisdom and experience, in a style of eloquence at once simple, dignified, and interesting.

As an author, Dr. Bard deserves and holds no humble station. Though he did not aspire to the ambition of being distinguished as an author, yet his writings are distinguished for purity and rich classical taste.

His work on Midwifery has already passed through six editions, and no doubt will long perpetuate the name and reputation of its author.

BURR, AARON, DD. a learned divine, and president of Princeton college, New-Jersey, was born in the year 1714, at Fairfield, Connecticut. He was graduated at Yale college, in 1735. In 1742 he was invited to take the pastoral charge of the presbyterian church at Newark. Here he became so eminent as an able and learned divine, and an accomplished scholar, that in 1748, he was unanimously elected President of the college, (which he was instrumental in founding,) as successor to Mr. Dickinson. The college was removed about this time from Elizabeth-Town to Newark, and in 1757 to Princeton. The flourishing state of this institution is much owing to his great and assiduous exertions. By his influence with the legislature, he got the charter enlarged in 1746. In 1748 the

first year of his presidency, the first class was graduated.

He presided over the college with great dignity, and possessed a happy manner in communicating his sentiments. In the pulpit he shone with superior lustre; he was fluent, copious, sublime, and persuasive. He was distinguished for his public spirit; he had a high sense of English liberty, and detested despotic power as the bane of human happiness. He considered the heresy of Arius or Socinus as not more fatal to the purity of the gospel, than the positions of Filmer to the dignity of man and the repose of states.

In 1752 he married a daughter of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, his successor in the presidency of the college, by whom he had two children, one of which was Aaron Burr, late vice-president of the United States. After a life of usefulness, devoted to his Master in heaven, he was called into the eternal world, September 24, 1757. He published a valuable treatise, entitled, the Supreme Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, besides sermons.

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, second governor of Plymouth colony, and one of the first settlers of NewEngland, was born in the North of England, in 1588. He left England and proceeded to Amsterdam to enjoy peace of conscience. After a residence there of ten years, he joined the church at Leyden, under the care of Mr. Robinson, who had agreed to transport themselves to America. They reached Plymouth in 1620; in the following year governor Carver died, and Mr. Bradford was elected governor in his place. Governor Bradford was most conspicuous for wisdom, fortitude, piety, and benevolence. In those times, when their souls were tried with every difficulty, he was not cast down

with the discouraging state of their affairs, or by the clouds which covered their future prospects.

The original government of Plymouth was founded entirely upon mutual compact, entered into by the planters before they landed, and was intended to continue no longer than till they could obtain legal authority from their sovereign. The first patent was obtained for the colony in the name of John Peirce; but another patent was obtained of the council for New-England, Jan. 13, 1630, in the name of William Bradford, his heirs, associates, and assigns, which confirmed the title of the colonists to a large tract of land, and gave them power to make all laws not repugnant to the laws of England. For several of the first years after the first settlement of Plymouth, the legislative, executive, and judicial business was performed by the whole body of freemen in assembly.

In 1634, the governor and assistants, the number of whom at the request of Mr. Bradford, had been increased to five in 1624, and to seven in 1633, were constituted a judicial court, and afterwards the supreme judicature. Petty offences were tried by the selectmen of each town, with liberty of appeal to the next court of assistants. The first assembly of representatives was held in 1639, when two deputies were sent from each town, excepting Plymouth, which sent four. In 1649, this inequality was done away. Such was the reputation of Mr. Bradford, that for thirty years the people placed him at the head of the government. He died May 9, 1657.

Governor Bradford wrote a history of Plymouthpeople and colony, beginning with the first formation of the church in 1602, and ending with 1646. It was contained in a folio volume of 270 pages. Martin's Memorial is an abridgment of it.

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, attorney general of the United States, was born in Philadelphia, September 14, 1755; and was graduated at Princeton college in 1772. He commenced the study of the law under Edward Shippen, Esq. late chief justice of Pennsylvania; and prosecuted his studies with unwearied application. In 1776 he joined the standard of his country, and fought in defence of her rights. In 1779 he recommenced the study of the law, and in September following was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. In 1780 he was appointed attorney general

of the state.

In 1784 he married the daughter of Elias Boudinot, of New-Jersey, with whom he lived in the exercise of every domestic virtue, that adorns human nature. In 1791 he was appointed by governor Mifflin, judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Here he had determined to spend a considerable part of his life; but on the promotion of Mr. Edmund Randolph to the office of secretary of state, as successor of Mr. Jefferson, he was urged by various public considerations to accept the office of attorney general of the United States, now left vacant. He accordingly received the appointment January 28, 1794. He continued only a short time in this station, to which he was elevated by Washington. He died August 23, 1795. He published in 1793, an Inquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania; with notes and illustrations.

BOYLSTON, ZABDIEL, F. R. S. an eminent physician, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, 1684. In the year 1721, when the small pox was raging in Boston, at the recommendation of Dr. Cotton Mather, he was the first who introduced