JUSTICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FIRST DISTRICT. Name. Residence. Place of Birth. Com. End. General Remarks. Joshua Darling Henniker Hopkinton 1816 1821 D. C. 1794. Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions from 1821 to 1823, Sen., and President. Died May 16, 1842. JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF SESSIONS. 1835 He was Chief Justice, Rep. from Allenstown, moved to Concord. 1825 Sheriff of Hillsborough Co. from 1814 to 1819. Marshal of District Court, Crier in S. Court of Jud. Resided in Salisbury till within a few years past, and now resides in Concord. Crier in C. C. P. 1825 Rep. from Northfield. JUDGES OF THE PRESENT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sutton Pembroke Concord Representative from Sutton. 1844 Representative from Pembroke. 1819 See Justices of the Court of Sessions. 1828 Resided in Hooksett till within a few months past. Senator from 1818 to 1823, Rep. from Hooksett several years. Counsellor. 1833 Editor of several newspapers, Register of Deeds, Rep. from Concord, Clerk P. O. Depart., Washington. 1838 Rep. from Pittsfield. 1842 Rep. from Warner several years, Senator, Counsellor 1837 and 1838. Born Jan. 25, 1772, died Nov. 12, 1844. 1833) 1833 1844 SHERIFFS. 1847 Sutton 1847 CLERKS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. 1838 D. C. 1794. Practised in Salisbury from 1797 to 1826, Clerk of C. C. P. in Hillsborough from 1816 to 1823, Clerk of C. C. P. in Merrimack from 1823 to 1833. Moved to Ms. 1846 D. C. 1823. Practised Law and also was P. Master at New London from 1826 to 1833. Clerk of C. C. P. in 1833. Resumed practice of Law in 1846. Acting Pension Agent. H. C. 1839. Admitted as Attorney, March 7, 1842. Moses Eastman Salisbury Salisbury Stephen C. Badger Concord Warner Nathaniel P. Baker Concord Henniker 18161 1823 In Hillsborough County. 1833 In Merrimack County. See Clerks of Superior Court. See Clerks of Superior Court. CLERKS OF THE COURT OF SESSIONS. Hampstead Concord 1821 1823 1823 In the old County of Hillsborough. 1825 Son of Dr. Philip Carrigain, Secretary of State, N. H., from 1805 to 1809. He prepared a Map of New Hampshire in 1816, was Clerk of Senate for several years, and also practised Law in Epsom and Chichester. D. C. 1794. 1836 Commenced practice in 1817 in a part of Dunbarton, afterward incorporated into Hooksett, remaining there till 1822, in Hopkinton till 1833. Solicitor of Merrimack Co., Dep. Secretary of New Hampshire. D. C. 1812. 1836 John Townsend Salisbury Chester 1837 1839 Mitchell Gilmore, Jr. Concord Warner 1839 1845 Reuben T. Leavitt Concord 1845 1837 D. C. 1825. Post Master. General Remarks. 1823 See Judges of Superior Court. 1828 Physician. Treasurer of the N. H. Savings Bank, Secretary Practised in Goshen from 1817 to 1821. Rep. from Hopkinton, 1829. Post Master at Hopkinton, 1829. D. C. 1814. JUDGES OF PROBATE. Name. Residence. Place of Birth. Com. End. 1839 Rep. from Warner, 1816, 1817, and 1823, Speaker in 1817. Bank Com. 1846. M. A. at D. C. 1823. REGISTERS OF PROBATE. 1844 Rep. from Sanbornton, Senator? 1845 D. C. 1825. Rep. from Concord and P. Master. 1845 Practised in Littleton from 1835 to 1843. COUNTY TREASURERS. 1830 State Treasurer, Dep. Sec. of State, Collector of Customs at Portsmouth, Rep. from Greenland. D. C. 1828. Practised Law in Gilmanton and Bristol, Cashier of Mechanics Bank, U. S. Pension Agent. 1833 James Cochran Northfield 1833 1835 Concord 1835 1837 David M. Carpenter Chichester 1837 1839 Rep. from Chichester. Pembroke 1839 1841 Franklin 1841 1843 Salisbury 1843 1845 Dep. Sheriff. George Minot Concord 1845 SOLICITORS IN THE OLD COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH. 1809 H. C. 1786. Practised in Salisbury from 1790 to 1810, Concord 1812 D. C. 1786. Practised in Hopkinton, and died since 1840. 1823 See Judges of Superior Court. SOLICITORS IN THE OLD COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM. 1793 Son of Judge Samuel Livermore, Attorney at Concord, 1783, Portsmouth, Newburyport, and Boston. Mem. Cong. Ms., Judge of Superior Court, N. H. M. A. at D. C. 1800. 1808 H. C. 1789. P. M. at Concord in 1801. Died July 29, 1834, aged 68. 1819 See Judges of Superior Court. 1823 W. C. 1811. Practised at Epsom. SOLICITORS IN THE NEW COUNTY OF MERRIMACK. (To be concluded.) 1833 H. C. 1809. Practised in Henniker from 1813 to 1832, Rep. 1843 See Registers of Deeds. 1843 D. C. 1828. Practised at Barnstead, Rep. from Pittsfield, Speaker of the House, Counsellor. Rep. in Cong. Rep. from Northfield, 1839, 1840, Sen. 1844, President Sen. 1845. M. A. at D. C. 1844. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF DECEASED PHYSICIANS IN MASSACHUSETTS. BY EBENEZER ALDEN, M. D. To the Editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. DEAR SIR, In accordance with your suggestion, I propose to send you occasionally for publication, as your limits may permit, brief notices and reminiscences of Physicians, who have lived in Massachusetts. The plan of your Periodical requires that such notices should be brief; and I shall usually refer your readers to the sources of information, from which my materials have been obtained, so as to facilitate the investigations of those who may wish in any case to make still further inquiries. Perhaps no class of public men is so little known to the community beyond the limited circle of professional pursuits, as physicians. Their life is one of incessant confinement, anxiety, and toil. A portion of their labors, as large as from one fourth to one third, is gratuitous. To them, if to no others, it is an abiding truth, The poor always ye have with you. It is exceedingly rare even in cities, still more so in the country, to find a physician of honorable standing with his fellows, who has acquired great wealth as the fruit of professional service. Having food and raiment, he must learn therewith to be content. Nevertheless, physicians find abundant sources of enjoyment in the sympathy and kindness of many attached friends; and it is believed, that, according to the measure of their ability, they are not behind the average of their fellow-citizens in works of philanthropy and benevolence. In the war of the Revolution they were fully represented in the senate-house, and on the battle-field; and the names of Prescott, Holton, Thomas, Brooks, and Warren, with many others, will go down to posterity, no less honored as statesmen and patriots, than as eminent members of the medical profession. It is pleasant to recall the virtues of such men; to know where they lived; who were their associates; how they performed the duties of social life; what obstacles they encountered and what rewards they obtained; and to hold forth their example to the younger members of the profession and especially to those just about to enter it, as a practical illustration of the great truth, that a life perseveringly devoted to the good of others, even under the most discouraging circumstances, will ultimately secure the public confidence, and meet its reward. Respectfully, yours. 1-DR. ERASTUS SERGEANT, SENIOR, OF STOCKBRIDGE. The following Notice of a distinguished physician and worthy man is copied, with little alteration, from a letter addressed to myself by Dr. Oliver Partridge, in December, 1841, when he was over ninety years of age. DR. ERASTUS SERGEANT was born at Stockbridge, August 7, 1742, and died November 14, 1814, aged 72. He was the son of Rev. John Sergeant, the first missionary to the Indians on the Housatonic River, who was born in Newark, N. J., in 1710; graduated at Yale College in 1729; was there a Tutor four years, and, having a great desire to be a missionary to the Aborigines, went to Litchfield, in 1733, where some English people had settled; procured a guide and went on foot forty miles further through the wilderness, to the Indians, where he met a cordial reception. He then returned to New Haven, resigned his |