Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 1

by Asa Gray

Henry, Joseph, [15], [30], [31], [78], [349], 403, 559, 623, 639, 681, 684.
Heuchera hispida and pubescens, [307].
Herbariums—
Bank’s, [132], [148].
Boissier, Geneva, 374, 720.
British Museum, [110], [132], [146], [151], 387.
Cosson, 715.
De Candolle, [18], [267], 374, 718, 724.
Delessert, 720.
Desfontaines and Poiret, [23], [176].
Engelmann, 753.
Fraser, [135], [136].
Gronovian, [150].
Humboldt, [173].
Jardin des Plantes, Musée du, [172], 382, 709, 715, 799.
Joad, 752.
Jussieu, [23], [173], [175], 709.
Kew, 377, 378, 565, 701, 791.
Kunth, [269].
Labilliardière, [173].
Lagasca, 720.
Lamarck, [173], 716, 792.
Lambert, [111], [128].
Lehmann, [269].
Lindley, 715.
Linnæan, [22], [149], [150].
Madrid, 701, 720.
Mercier, [173].
Michaux, [23], [162], [164], [172], [178], 681.
Mill, 659.
Nuttall, [193], 697.
Oxford, 379.
Poiret, [173].
Pursh, [22], [111], [128], [136], [148], [152], [174].
Pylaie, de la, [173].
Requien, [185].
Richard, [172], [173], [178].
Royal Herbarium, Berlin, at Schönberg, [269].
Sims, [151].
Schultz, 715.
Short, 499.
Torrey, 641.
Ventenat, [178].
Vienna, [210], [214], [223], 795.
Walter, [130], [134], [136], [174].
Webb, [157], [173].
Willdenow, [268], 392, 709, 716.
Heterogeny, 505.
Heterogone, 664.
“Historicus,” 506, 513.
Hodge, Prof. Charles, 646.
Hollister, Col., 768.
Holmes, O. W., 694, 725.
Holton, I. F., 415, 421.
Home Rule, 790.
Hooker, W. J., letters to, [50], [57], [268], [273], [277], [282], [289], [298], [304], [306], [324],3[34], [350], [357], [364], [367], 392, 401, 408, 411, 415, 421, 433, 440, 449, 498, 531;
references to, [21], [22], [33], [89-92], [103], [110], [130], 370, 378, 381, 418, 437, 442, 499, 541, 542.
—— work with (1838), [90], [92], [93].
Hooker, J. D., letters to, [317], [336], 455, 702, 707, 718, 728, 734, 742, 744, 751, 758, 781, 785, 790, 794, 811;
references to, [22], [92], [110], [115], [119], [123], [125], [130], [270], [307], 380, 413, 417, 442, 449, 468, 478, 489, 512, 520, 532, 541, 565, 566, 592, 666, 669, 670, 671, 675, 678, 679, 702, 712, 714, 717, 722, 723, 752, 792, 806, 810.
Hope, Prof., [99].
Horner, 613.
Horsfield, T., [119].
Houghton, [73], [76].
“How Plants Behave,” 624.
“How Plants Grow,” 438, 444.
Howard, Joseph, [3].
Howland, J., letters to, 590, 593.
Hudsonia montana, [310].
Huet, 426.
Hügel, Baron, [219].
Hughes, T., 608.
Humboldt’s herbarium, [173].
Hunneman, J., [149].
Hunter, John, [117].
Huxley, T. H., 458, 504, 505.
Hyams, M. E., 681, 682, 683, 692.
Hyatt, A., 624.
Hybrids, 459.
Hybridism, 458.
Hymenophyllum ciliatum, 392.
Iliad, Bryant’s, 613.
Imaun, Joseph, 584.
Impatiens, 508.
Incas, 502.
Inheritance, 561.
Insectivorous plants, 510, 556, 557, 561, 633, 641, 645, 647, 649.
Irving, Washington, 808.
J. S. M., Letter to, 778.
Jacquin, Baron, [216], [217], 795.
James, Mrs. T. P., Letter to, 500.
James, T. P., 423.
Jameson, R., [100].
Japan Flora, 445, 447, 450, 452.
Japanese plants, [315].
Jardin des Plantes, [23], [24], [157], [161], [178],3[81], 709, 715, 792.
Jellett, 802.
Jenyns, Soame, [321].
Joad Herbarium, 752.
Johnston, J. T. W., [108].
Journal of Mrs. Gray, [309], 380, 689.
Journal in Europe (1838-39), [85], [266].
Jussieu, Adrien de, [23], [157], [158], [177], [366], 381, 382, 400, 402, 411, 500.
Jussieu’s herbarium, 709.
Kennedy, G., 517.
Kew, [22], [116], 370, 383, 418, 542, 592, 701, 702, 710, 715, 720, 722, 724, 792, 810.
Kingsley, Charles, 667.
Klotzsch, J. H., [26], [268], [269].
Knieskern, P. D., [90], [135], [289], [293].
Kohinoor, 386.
Körner, 795.
Kunth, K. S., [26], [173], [269].
Laboratory, 614.
Lagasca, F., [146];
his plants, 720.
Lamarck’s Asters and Herbarium, [269], 709, 716, 792.
Lambert, A. B., [22], [111], [120], [128], [132], [137].
Langley, 812.
Lapham, I. A., [347], 401.
Lasègue, [24].
Lavallée, A., 713.
La Veta Pass, 672, 673.
Lawrence, Abbott, 379.
Le Conte, J. E., [18].
Lecture Room, 604, 614, 619.
Lectures, first course, [13], [16].
Lectures, first in Cambridge, [300-303], [325];
Lowell Institute, [294], [314-316], [318], [324], [328], [330], [331], [339];
Smithsonian, 403;
Yale College, see Yale.
Lehmann, J. G. C., [20], [44], [56], [269].
Leitner, 790.
Lemmon, J. G., 675, 727.
Lenses, Jewel, [135].
Lesquereux, L., [360], 640.
Library, Botanical, at Cambridge, 694.
Liddell, Dean, 802.
Liddon, Canon, 802.
Lindheimer, F., [291], [298], [340], [343], 391.
Lindley, John, [22], [115], [127], [130], [131], [152], 379.
Lindley’s asters, 715.
Link, H. F., [26], [269].
Linnæus, 497, 498, 700.
Linnæus, Birthday Celebration, [236];
portrait of, 545.
Linnæan Society, [22], [134].
Loddiges, [126], [127], [143].
London, Visit to (1839), [110-153].
Lookout Mountain, 650.
Loring, C. G., 393, 560.
Lowell, J. A., [293], [342], [354], [362], [368], 530, 534.
Lowell, John, 439.
Lowell, J. R., 714, 804.
Lowell Institute Lectures, [294], [314], [316], [318], [324], [328], [330], [339].
Lowell Lectures, Religion in, 725.
Lubbock, 731.
Lyceum of Natural History, New York, [20], [31], [37], [56], [63].
Lyell, [118], [129], [346], 384, 503, 732.
Malan, [265].
Mann, H., 545, 566, 570.
“Manual of Botany,” [33], [334], [346], [353], [355], 414, 433, 547.
Marcet, Prof., 588.
Marcon, J., 643.
Marriage, [358].
Martins, C. F., 569.
Martius, [25], [232], [240], 375, 514, 589.
Mary Queen of Scots, [96], [105].
Maskeleyne, 379.
Maspero, 802.
Masters, M. T., 592, 702.
Mather, Dr., [13].
Maurice, 755, 756.
Maximowicz, 680.
McDowell, General, 769.
McGuffey, C. J., [72].
Medical College, Fairfield, [12], [29].
“Melanthacearum Americæ Septentrionalis Revisio,” [20].
Melastomaceæ, 478.
Mellichamp, Dr. J. H., 647, 649.
Menzies, A., [23], [121], [126], [141].
Mexico, journey to, 761-773.
Michaux, F. A., 382, 500, 540, 692, 813.
Michaux’s Herbarium, [23], [162], [164], [172], [178].
Michigan, University of, [21], [76], [83], [270], [274], [282], [283];
A. G., Professor at, [21].
Microscopy, [135], [137], [138], [147], [175].
Miers, J., [131].
Mill, J. S., 659.
Miller, plants of, [146].
Mineralogy, [13], [17], [19].
“Mineralogy of Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties, N. Y.,” [19].
Miquel, F. A. W., 376.
Mirbel, G. F. B., [23], [165], [175], [179].
Mivart, 459.
Mocino, J. M., 782.
Moggridge, J. T., 571.
Mohl, Hugo von, [267].
“Monograph of North American Rhynchosporæ,” [19], [31], [60].
Montagne, J. F. C., [24], [164], 418.
Montpellier, [185-189], 569.
Moquin-Tandon, 400.
Morell, 479.
Morris, D., 762.
Moseley, 772.
Mother of Asa Gray, [3], [5].
“Movement in Plants, Power of,” Darwin, 714.
Mozley, 665.
Muhlenberg, H. L., 685.
Mulder, G. J., [328], [331].
Müller, J., 593, 625, 644, 720.
Müller, Max, 488, 489, 491.
Munich, [231-240].
Munich Botanic Garden, [233], [240].
Munro, [100].
Munro, W., 446.
Murfree, Miss M. N., 812.
Murillo, 705.
Murray, Miss, 416.
Museum, Botanical, at Cambridge, 440-442.
Muséum, Paris, herbarium of, [172].
Museum of Natural History, at Cambridge, [351].
Name of Asa, [5].
National Academy, 551.
Natural selection, 459, 461, 489, 497.
See also Evolution.
Naudin, C., 382, 399, 434, 472.
Naville, E., 588, 719.
Nees von Esenbeck, [44], [130], [223], 716, 726.
“New or Rare Plants of State of New York,” [19].
Nicoll, W., [99], [101], [102], [105].
Noel, Baptist, [122], [133], [144].
Nomenclature, [305], 408, 427, 434, 448, 515, 521, 552, 607, 685, 699, 700, 744, 746, 813.
North, Christopher (Professor Wilson), [100], [104].
North, Miss, 810.
“North American Gramineæ and Cyperaceæ,” [19], [45], [46].
“North American Plants, Synopsis of,” 559.
North Carolina, journeys to, [26], [28], [280], [306], 663, 686, 757.
Nuttall, [92], [282], [326].
Nuttall’s herbarium, 697;
plants, [278].
Nuttalia, [90].
Nymphæa flava, 790.
Oaks, W., [334-336], 672.
Oaks, 672.
Oliver, D., 512, 592, 617, 702, 810.
Olmsted, F. L., 371, 421.
“Orchids, Fertilization of,” Darwin, 480, 484, 486, 489, 509.
Orchis, pyramidalis, 481;
spectabilis, [53], 481.
Oregon, collection of Wilkes’ Expedition, 622, 639.
Origin of Species, 455, 456, 457, 458, 472, 480, 485, 486, 498.
See Evolution.
Orthodox Botany, 733.
Owen, [117], 459, 505, 510, 521.
Oxford University, 404.
Oxford, degree at, 801.
Packard, 623.
Padua, [204].
Paget, 802.
Palgrave, Sir Francis, [117], [118], [122].
Palmer’s Chihuahua collection, 782.
Palmer, E., 686.
Palmerston, 536, 540.
Pangenesis, 561.
Pardie, J., [100].
Paris, visit to (1839), [153-180].
Parish, S. B., 726, 767.
Parish collection, 726.
Park, Prof., 655, 656.
Parker, Judge, 494.
Parliament (1839), [139], [142].
Parry, C. C., 468, 628, 636.
Parry and Palmer’s “Mexican Compositæ,” 686.
Parsons, T., 507.
Pascal, 743.
Passion flower, 611.
Passiflora acerifolia, tendrils of, 611.
Pasteur, 511, 550.
Peabody, A. P., 656, 805.
Peabody Museum, Harvard, 543.
Peck, Prof., [326], [327].
Pedro, Dom, 659.
Peirce, Benjamin, [296], [328], [330].
Pentstemon, 391.
Penzig, O., 718.
Persoon, C. H., [336].
Petalanthera, [146].
Peters, T. M., 394.
Philadelphus, 428.
Philip, [209].
Photography, discovery of Daguerreotypes, [127];
Talbotypes, 379.
Phyllotaxis, 505, 507.
Pickering, Charles, [337], [347].
Pickering, E. C., 744.
Pictet, 460, 519.
Pictures in Spain, 705.
Pinus monophylla, 674, 675;
ponderosa, 674.
Planchon, J. E., 569.
Plantamour, 719.
“Plantæ Wrightianæ,” 389, 391, 392, 393, 406.
Plants, introduced, [313], [325].
Platanthera flava, 509.
Plukenet, plants of, [146], [150].
Podophyllum Emodi, [175].
Poiret plants, [176].
Politics, American, 755.
Pollen tubes, [325].
Pope, Gen., 770.
Pöppig, E. F., [267].
Porto Rico collection, 702.
Portrait, crayon drawing of A. Gray, [94];
bronze, St. Gaudens, 752.
Potamogeton, [350].
Potato introduced, [5].
Pourtalès, 719.
Powell, Baden, 464.
Presl, K. B., [223].
Prestele, [330], [340], [344], [362].
Prestwich, 802.
Price, B., 802.
Priest, Dr., [13].
Pringle, C. G., 727, 782.
Pursh, F., [111], 734;
herbarium of, [22].
Pusey, 737.
Putnam, G. P., [23], [142], [143], [152], [265].
Putterlich, A., [214].
Pylaie’s, De la, herbarium, [173].
Pyxidanthera, [304].
Quarter-millennial of Harvard College, 789.
Quekett, E. J., [129], [130], [140].
Quercus alba, var., 672.
Quincy, President, [27], [283], [293].
Raffles, T., [86].
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, S. C., [278].
Ranunculaceæ, [344].
Ranunculus hydrocharoides, 408.
Ravenel, 745.
Rayleigh, Lord, 805.
Reade, [137].
Rebellion, 465, 467, 469, 470, 471, 478, 480, 481, 483, 486, 487, 490, 494, 495, 496, 503, 506, 511, 512, 518, 522, 526, 528, 533, 535, 537, 538, 554.
Reconstruction (of United States government), 544, 549, 554.
Redfield, J. H., early impressions of A. Gray, [31];
letters to, 659, 686, 697, 701, 775, 811.
Redfield and Canby, letters to, 712, 723.
Reichenbach, H. Gottlieb, [267].
Reichenbach, H. Gustave, 811.
“Religion and Science,” Yale lectures, 693.
Religious views, [320], [321], 396;
influence on Evolution, 751.
Requien, E., [184], [185].
Resignation of Professorship, 621, 624, 634, 635, 640, 641, 643.
Reuter, G. F., [26], 590.
Rhamnus Parviflora, [307].
Rhexia Virginica, 478, 484.
Rhizoma, enlargement of, meaning, [52].
Rhododendron, [315], 692.
“Rhynchosporæ, Monograph of North American,” [19], [31], [60].
Riaño, 704.
Rich, W., [21].
Richard, A., [24], [164], 400, 540.
Richard, L. C., [24].
Richard’s herbarium, [173], [178].
Richardson, Sir John, [110], [112], [364].
Richardson, Dr., 762.
Riocreux, [330].
Ripley, Mrs., [289].
Robbins, J. W., 686.
Robinia, 509.
Robinson, [123].
Roemer, 373.
Roeper, J. A. C., 700, 716.
Rogers, Mrs. H., [6], 787.
Roget, P. M., [113], [118], [129].
Rolleston, G., 595.
Romane, 742.
Roscoe, H. E., 807, 808.
Roscoe, W., 808.
Rosse, Lord, 384.
Rothrock, J. T., 485, 488, 530, 531.
Royal Society of London, [112], [127], 754.
Royer, Mme., 498.
Royle, J. F., [112], [151].
Rugel, [311].
Rugel’s New Holland Collections, [215].
Rutosma, [361].
Saccardo, P. A., 718.
Sandwich Island plants, [90].
Sandys, 800.
Santa Barbara, reception at, 768.
Saporta, 685, 807.
Sargent, C. S., 645, 681, 682, 686, 688, 728, 729, 786.
Sarracenia, 642, 646, 647.
Sartwell, [172].
Saturday Review, 479.
Sauquoit, [2-5].
Saussure, 719.
Savi, G., [194].
Saxifraga Careyana, 689, 691.
Schimper, W. P., 374, 697.
Schinus molle, 568, 763.
Schkuhr, C., [26], [267].
Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, [26], [267].
Schleiden, [151].
Schönbrunn Botanic Garden, [218], 795.
Schooling, [5-8].
Schott, H., [218].
Schreber, 451.
Schultz Bipontinus, C. H., 715.
Schultz-Schultzenstein, C. H., [329].
Schultes, J. H., [235], [239].
Schwägrichen, C. F., [267].
Schweinitz, Bishop, [17], [44].
Schweinitzia, [310].
Scientific Club, [287].
Sedum pusillum, 652, 653.
Seemann, B., 473.
Semonville, Marquis, [24].
Senecio, [293], [294].
“Sequoia and its history,” 628, 638.
Sequoia sempervirens, 412.
Seringe, N. C., [24], [181].
Sessé, 782.
Shaw, Henry, 446, 453, 468, 752, 753, 761, 782.
Shaw Botanic Garden, 761, 782.
Shepherd, J., [88].
Short, C. W., 411, 447, 498.
Shortia galacifolia, [178], [179], 681, 682, 683, 686, 687, 692.
Siebold, P. F., 376.
Silliman’s Journal. See Am. Journal Science and Arts.
Silphium, 400.
Silver Craze, 781.
Sims’ herbarium, [151].
Slavery, [296], 535.
See also Rebellion.
Sloane, Sir Hans, [199], [200], [201].
Smilax rotundifolia, [52].
Smith, Goldwin, 536.
Smith, I. A., [345], [346].
Smith, J. E., 685.
Smithsonian Institution, 397, 403, 665;
Regent, 729, 730.
Smyth, N., 695.
Snake country collections, [90], [92].
Soleirol, [20].
Solidago, [279], 726.
Sophocles, E. A., 434.
South Pacific Exploring Expedition, See Exploring.
Spach, E., [23], [165], [176], 382, 418.
Species, 520, 617, 657, 744.
See also Evolution, origin of.
Species, definition of, 497;
essential character of, 691.
Spedding, J., 732.
Spelling match, [6], 787.
Spencer, H., 459, 740, 759.
Sprague, Isaac,

[329], [330], [340], [347], [357], [362], [364], [366], 405.
Sprengel, 813.
Spruce’s plants, 437.
St. Augustine, 659.
St. Hilaire, A. de, [24], [167], [168].
Stanley, Dean, 605, 722.
Staunton, Sir F., [118].
Steindachner, 795.
Stephens, 539.
Stokes, 805.
Stokesia cyanea, [279].
Stone Mountain, 650.
Story, 801, 802.
Strachey, Gen., 671.
“Structural Botany,” 814.
“Studies in Solidago and Aster,” 726.
Subspecies, 744.
Subtropical Plants, Mexican, 765.
Sullivant, W. S., [28], [129], [280], [290], [306], [308], [310], [318], [360], 390, 433, 514, 640, 641, 668.
Sumner, C., 494.
Süss, E., 795.
Switzerland, walking tour in 1839, [240-263];
(1869) 590.
Synoptical Flora. See Flora.
Talbot, 802, 805.
Talbot, Fox, [127].
Targioni-Tozzetti, [200].
Tatnall, E., 446.
Taylor, Richard, [114], [117].
Taylor, Dr., 789.
Taxus nucifera, [129].
Teacher in Utica, [16], [18], [19], [29], [37].
Teaching, 438, 439.
Teleology. See Design.
Temple, Bishop, 602, 780.
Tendrils, 492, 510, 512, 538, 539, 548, 611, 631, 633.
Tetradymia, [293].
“Text-Book, Botanical,” [28], [281], [282], [286], [289], [290], [297], [329], [334], [365], [366], [368], 685, 687, 693.
Thanksgiving, 738.
Thayer, N., 816.
Thayer, J. B., 781.
“Théorie Elémentaire,” De Candolle, [47].
Thompson, W. H., 380, 713.
Thompson, T., 380, 592.
Thomson, Sir William, 759.
Thurber, G., letters to, 408;
references to, 406, 694.
Thurberia, 408, 409.
Thuret, G., 569, 572.
Thury, 519.
Tommasini, J. S., [25], [209].
Torrey, Herbert Gray, [141].
Torrey, J., letters to, [33-45], [51], [91], [149], [287], [292], [297], [303], [307], [314], [318], [324], [327], [333], [334], [339], [343], [356], [358], [362], 369, 445, 450, 568, 577, 596, 641, 622;
references to, [15], [18], [20], [29], [31], [48], [134], 405, 415, 485, 500, 514, 533, 558, 595, 601, 639, 641, 813.
Torrey, Mrs., letters to, [67], [81], [152], [161], [198], [294], [300], [301], [305];
references to, [30], 415.
Torrey, the Misses, letters to, [153], [163].
Torreya, 428, 650, 651.
Townsend, [278].
Traill, 759.
Transport boats, articulated, 759.
Treadwell, D., [27].
Trécul, A., 382.
Trees of North America, [362], [364], [366].
Trelease, W., 782.
Treveranus, 373.
Tricerastes, [223].
Trichomanes Petersii, 394.
Trichomanes radicans, 392, 394.
Trimen, 592.
Trisetum Molle, [46].
Trowbridge, J. F., [14], [15], [41];
Letters to, [64], [65], [83].
Trumbull, J. H., 745.
Tuckerman, E., [27], [292], 784.
Tulasne, L. R., 382, 400.
Turner, Dawson, 388.
Tylor, 772, 802.
Tyndall, 565, 631, 805.
Ungnadia, [222].
United States Exploring Expedition. See Exploring.
University of Michigan, [21], [76], [83], [270], [274], [282].
Utica, [16], [18], [19], [29], [37].
Vaccinium brachycerum, [343].
Val Crucis, [309].
Valentine, W., [144], [149].
“Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication,” 561.
Vase presented to Asa Gray, 776.
Vasey, G., 688.
Vaughan, 805.
Ventenat herbarium, The, [178].
“Vestiges of Creation,” [328], [330], [345].
Vienna, [210-223].
Vienna Hofherbarium, [214], 795.
Vilmorin, H. de, 721, 799.
Vilmorin, L., 381, 445.
Virginia, Journey to. See North Carolina.
Visiani, R. de, [25], [204].
Vogel, [93].
Wallace, 613, 714.
Wallich, N., 379.
Walter, T., [134].
Walter’s herbarium, [130], [136], 813.
War. See Rebellion.
Ward, N. B., [23], [120], [126], [132], [137], [144], 369, 370.
Ward cases, [126].
Wartmann, 719.
Watson, S., 622, 640, 669, 694, 727, 729, 784, 787, 788, 813.
Webb, P. Barker, [23], [157], [173], 382.
Webb’s herbarium, [173].
Wedgewood, Miss, 755.
Weeds, 492.
Weiss, 795.
Weisner, 796.
Wellingtonia. See also Sequoia, 408.
Welwitschia, 541.
Whipple, Charles W., [73-79].
Whitney, Asa, 388.
Wilkes, C., [359], 392, 622.
Will, 816.
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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This colony was composed of rigid Presbyterians, who desired to leave Ireland to escape various persecutions. They sent out the Rev. Mr. Boyd, early in 1718, with an address to the Governor of Massachusetts. The address, now in the Archives of the New Hampshire Historical Society, was signed by three hundred and nineteen persons, nine of whom were clergymen. The report brought back by Mr. Boyd of his reception by the governor and of the prospects of the country was so favorable that the addressors converted their property into money, and embarked in five ships for Boston, which they reached August 4, 1718. In Boston they separated for different places, but the larger part were sent to Worcester, then a frontier settlement of fifty-eight dwellings and two hundred inhabitants, but needing a larger population as protection from the Indians. John Gray—there were two of his name in the original party—went to Worcester, where he owned considerable land, and was evidently a man of influence in the colony, to judge from the various public offices held by him.

[2] Robert Gray, one of John Gray’s sons, was twenty years old when he came to America. There is a tradition in the family that the acquaintance and courtship began on the voyage.

[3] Sauquoit was a settlement in the eastern part of the town of Paris, the township so named in grateful recognition of a supply of food, sent by a Mr. Paris, of Oswego, at a time when the early settlers were near starving.—A. G.

[4] Moses Gray was the eighth child,—a boy and a girl were born later,—and one step-brother, Watson, survived Moses Gray. Moses Wiley Gray made the journey to Sauquoit, on horseback, taking before him his son Moses, then a boy of eight. The Mohawk Valley at this time was the far West, with only slow and tedious communication beyond Schenectady, but opening, in its lovely tributary valleys, tempting regions of hill and valley, well wooded, with clear, sparkling streams. The land offered good farming opportunities when cleared of trees, and the rapid streams gave good promise of water power. Here Moses Wiley Gray took a farm on the top of a hill, and cultivated the land for ten years. He was injured by the fall of a tree, and his leg was amputated. He died the next day, May 8, 1803, leaving his son Moses, with his stepmother and her children largely dependent on his assistance.

[5] She was married in 1788.

[6] The house is still standing which, built in 1648 by an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was bought by William Howard, in 1669.

[7] Asa’s mother was but four years old, when the family moved to Sauquoit, and well remembered her mother’s crying at the crossing of the Hudson River, which must have seemed formidable in the small boats of that time. Joseph Howard was a man of a very lovable character, as shown from the affectionate remembrances of him by his grandchildren, the eldest of whom, Asa, was much with him. He was a deacon of the First Church in Sauquoit for forty years, and one of the leading men in the town. He died in 1849.