shared. He was ordained in Dorset in 1796, only a few miles from the home of his childhood, where he continued a pastor for nearly half a century, until his death in 1842.

Dr. Jackson was the first elected member of the corporation in Middlebury College. Through his interest. in promising young men, and his personal influence and instructions, more of them were educated from his small town than from all the rest of the county besides. Near the commencement of the present century, when exhausted by his labors in a revival, he took a journey on horseback for the benefit of his health. During this journey, he visited Salem, Marblehead, Newburyport and Boston, collecting fifteen hundred dollars as a fund for the assistance of pious young men. Thus originated the first education society in this country.

By his influence, Mr. Burr, of a neighboring town, the richest merchant in Vermont, bequeathed one hundred thousand dollars to charitable and religious objects, twelve thousand of which were to endow a professorship in Middlebury College. Dr. Jackson took a deep interest also in the first movements of the foreign

missionary enterprise.

In his social character and relations, he won the highest respect and affection of all who were connected with him. He maintained a uniform Christian cheerfulness, enlivened at times by a pleasant humor. His ministry was stable, and eminently successful, being attended by frequent revivals; and when he died, all, even the most ungodly, felt that a good man had fallen.

As the companion of his labors, Dr. Jackson had chosen Susanna, only child of Samuel and Margaretta Cram, of Brentwood, N. H., born 1771. Her paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Rogers, a lincal descendant,

of the seventh generation, from John Rogers, the martyr of Smithfield. No care or expense was spared in her intellectual and social culture. Having enjoyed the best advantages for education in her native state, she attended a select school in Newburyport, boarding in the family of the Rev. Dr. Spring. Here was formed her first acquaintance with Mr. Jackson.

In the winter of 1797, soon after Mr. Jackson's ordination, she took leave of her parents for her new home among the Green Mountains. At that season of the year, to encounter the snows of the forests was an undertaking requiring no ordinary courage. In this, as in subsequent cases, Mrs. Jackson proved herself equal to every emergency. Combining rare personal attractions, varied and rich accomplishments, with a decided literary taste, she yet entered without regret upon the serious and self-denying duties of her new station. For industry, economy, and an air of cheerful comfort, her house was a model-home. With her husband's limited salary, it was owing to her frugal housewifery and skilful management that, like the widow's of Sarepta, her barrel of meal and her cruse of oil were never empty. But, while thus faithful in the discharge of her domestic duties, she did not neglect her higher ones. The bright flame of her spiritual life burned clearer and clearer, till she passed into the world of glory. The following passage from her diary shows that, while engaged in perplexing family cares, the tone of her piety raised her above them into the sweetest communion with heaven.

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"Distressed with family cares, workmen and company, thought I could not enjoy any of the privileges of the day. But I said, this is my duty, -God has allotted it, and He, amidst all my cares, and the multitude of my thoughts within me, can cause His comforts to delight my soul. Christ can

come into the ship when it is on the sea, tossed with waves, as well as into the peaceful chamber. Then came this passage, 'Neither death nor life.'— With inexpressible sweetness I dwelt on the words, 'Nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ Jesus, our Lord.' If death cannot separate us, what can these cares do? O, to believe IN and wait on the Lord!"

Mrs. Jackson was a benefactor to the poor, and an ardent lover of the missionary cause, it being her habit to sustain at least one heathen child in a mission-school. At the age of seventy-seven her mental powers were in full activity, and she still kept up that intimate knowledge of the world's history for which she had been distinguished. Said a gentleman of the bench, an earnest politician, in relation to reports of European commotion, "I'll call on Mrs. Jackson. She will give me more intelligence and juster views than I can get from all my papers."

Her opinions on religious subjects, as well as on all others, were particularly discriminating. "O," says she, "how the heart is inclined to feed on manna already gathered! May I, according to the divine command, as cheerfully arise and gather it, as I would sweetly feed upon it when gathered."

We have lingered thus long upon the character of Mrs. Jackson, because with these reminiscences of the mother is intimately connected the history of the daughter, who was truly blest in descending from an ancestral line so hoi ored on earth and so approved in heaven.

INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

"O child! O new-born denizen

Of life's great city! on thy head
The glory of the morn is shed,
Like a celestial benison !

Here at the portal thou dost stand,

And with thy little hand

Thou openest the mysterious gate

Into the future's undiscovered land."

H. W. LONGFELLOW.

IN the sweet seclusion we have described, on the ninth of the blossoming month of May, in the year 1811, the subject of these memorials first opened her eyes upon the light of this world. Happy, as we have seen, in her descent in the direct line of the truest nobility, she was also happy in the beautiful nature which encircled her home as with a garden of delights. Thus crowned from her birth with spring's fairest blossoms, this sweet infant, by her quiet beauty and gentleness, soon won the hearts of all around her.

But what should they call their May-flower? Anna Loraine, the next older child, then five years of age, expressed the wish that her baby-sister should be her namesake. This desire, amounting almost to a passion, continued, until, in her spelling-book at school, she found a name which she was willing to substitute for her own. It was Henrietta. Soon after, Anna Loraine sickened and died. Most natural was it then that her wish, so peculiar as to seem almost prophetic, should become sacred to her parents. So, at the age

of three months, the father baptized his little daughter by the name of Henrietta Anna Loraine.

The infancy of Henrietta is cherished in the recollections of the elder members of the family as unusually quiet and happy. "I remember her distinctly,' says her brother, "when an infant in her mother's arms; how I played with her as she sat laughing and springing in the lap, a happy and beautiful cherub; and how intensely I loved her."

She was never punished but once, which so grieved her tender heart that she sobbed all night. Thus early did she manifest that peculiar sensibility for which she was afterwards distinguished.

Her intellectual powers began to expand at an early period, but so gradual and harmonious was their development as to save her from the dangers attendant upon precocity.

It is the mother's heart that treasures up the fond reminiscences of her children's infancy and childhood. Were Henrietta's mother still upon earth, she could undoubtedly furnish many interesting recollections of her daughter's early years. As it is, but few incidents can be given.

When she was just old enough to walk alone, she tottered out one day into the garden, where her father was making beds by simply treading his feet between them. As he was raking the ground, she came running to him, "Papa carding the ground for?" "You must take care and not get your little feet on here." "Yes, I goes in the cracks."

Conscientiousness, that delightful trait, which generally requires such careful cultivation, seems to have sprung up in her heart almost in infancy, and continued to distinguish her through life. When not old enough to make out long words, an elder sister, coming one day