, having enlisted while a student at Princeton. He was the author of the famous "Newburg Letters," which created such a sensa- tion at the time. He was a voluminous author and a United States Senator. The Col. Henry Bouquet who is spoken of in this letter was an Eng- lish soldier, but born in Switzerland

Yorktown, When Washington took farewell of his officers at New York, Knox was the first to advance and receive his parting embrace. He was made a Ma- jor General after the surrender of Yorktown,and in 1785 he was appoint- ed by Congress Secretary of War, and held that office eleven years. The Navy

for 1857, page 278.) At a joint meeting of the School Trustees and the Trustees of the Lu- theran Church, held on May 23, 1857, it was resolved that the school house property, real estate and furniture, as desks and benches, should be sold at public sale on June 20, 1857. At the said sale the property