Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches

"This is the mansion afterwards purchased by the writer, in which he lived from the date of his last return from Europe until his death in 1826. —Ib.

8

This tree still remains in fine condition on Milton Hill. —Ed. The Life and Works.

9

The Life and Works – Vol. II., p. 136-138.

10

The Life and Works – Vol. II., p. 255.

11

The debates in the Virginia Convention on the Federal Constitution, and his forensic argument against the recovery of the forfeited British debts.

12

He is said (Wirt, p. 404) to have been offered by Washington the Secretaryship of State and the embassy to Spain. He certainly was, by him, also offered the War Department, and by Mr. Adams the embassy to France. These are known. When the papers of Alexander Hamilton come to be published down to those of 1796, it will be seen that he was then offered, by the heads of the Federal party, through John Marshall, the nomination for the Presidency, as Washington's successor, but declined it.

13

Life of Hamilton, by his son, John C. Hamilton, Vol. I. p. 22.

14

Life of Hamilton, Vol. I. p. 382.

15

Works of Daniel Webster, Vol. I, p. 200.

16

Hildreth's History of the United States. New Series, vol. ii. p. 524.

17

It is supposed that the State derives its name from a hill in the north part of the town, situated near the peninsula called Squantum, likewise a part of the town. Squantum was a favorite residence of the Indians; and the Sachem, who ruled over the district "extending round the harbors of Boston and Charlestown, through Malden, Chelsea, Nantasket, Hingham, Weymouth and Dorchester," had his seat on the neighboring hill, which was shaped like an arrow-head. Arrow-head in the Indian language was mos or mous, and hill wetuset. Thus the great Sachem's home was called Moswetuset or Arrow-head Hill, his subjects the Moswetusets, and lastly the Province Massachusetts, but frequently in the primitive days "the Massachusetts."

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Died early in the city of New-York, soon after entering upon the practice of law.

19

See vignette title-page to this volume.

20

Mr. Clay.

21

We have consulted principally the "Memorials of Daniel Webster," published by the Appletons, containing the letters of Gen. Lyman, and the eulogies of Everett, Choate and Hildreth, all enjoying the precious favor of his personal intimacy. The reminiscences of Mr. Lanman, his private secretary, and Everett's life prefixed to the complete edition of his works, are our authority for many of the following details.