tion,” the first anti-slavery sermon ever preached in that city. It created a great excitement, and led to much discussion in the press. Thirty lawyers were present. The church, during his short pastorate, increased nearly threefold. On leaving he received a unanimous call to become their pastor. Perhaps the most important work of his life has been done in Philadelphia. It was owing to his influence that the Congregational Churches have been planted there. Dr. J. P. Thompson once said to him—’ I could not understand why you were removed from Fair Haven; but in the planting of Congregationalism in Philadelphia I see the reason.’ And many have said to him—’the work you have done here is vastly more important than you could have done in Fair Haven.’ By personal effort he enlisted a sufficient number of New Englanders to organize a church. Soon after he moved for a second church in another section of the city. Now they have two vigorous churches of that order there. The Central Church has just finished its ecclesiastical buildings, which, with the land, cost $120,000, and has a membership of over 200. The Plymouth Church has a commodious chapel, and a membership of about 100. The future of both seems to be assured. This work has not been confined to Philadelphia. Churches have followed at Baltimore, Washington, Vineland, and other places holding Congregational principles. It is said the establishing of the Congregational Church in Washington was owing to his influence. It would be impossible to measure the extent of this work. The Church of the Pilgrims, which he organized in Vineland, N. J., a flourishing and interesting community of 10,000 inhabitants, thirty. four miles south of Philadelphia, has prospered. Its membership has gone up from twenty-four to seventy-three. He was urged to become the permanent pastor. Quite a number of his sermons, as well as articles, have been published in the New Englander.”

          Frederick Burdett, born August 2d, 1850; died August 6th, 1851.
2942. Arthur Burdett, born September 5th, 1852.
2943. Mary Arabella, born May 30th, 1855.
2944. Minerva Lee, born November 9th, 1859.

NORMAN LEE HART, second son of Deacon Norman Hart, of New Britain, and his wife, Minerva (Lee), born February 2d, 1826, in New Britain; married December 6th, 1854, Lavinia M. Kellogg, of Philadelphia, daughter of M. A. Kellogg, of Avon, Conn., and his wife, Marilla (Cooley), of Hartford, Conn., born June 24th, 1834, in Hartford. He has been engaged in the mercantile business in Philadel-