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to determine its position in the country than any other man; and in this circumscribed field, in which the great business of his life was concerned, his fame must mainly rest.”

Although he corresponded extensively with men of genius and of learning, he never appeared as an author in print;1 and his only literary remains are contained in a little volume of poems, of which a pleasant selection, translated by our fellow-citizen, Hon. Henry C. Murphy, has been published in one of the elegant volumes of the “Bradford Club.”2 We have drawn freely, in our sketch of the first pastor of Breuckelen, upon the elegant and careful memoir which Mr. Murphy has there given.

1 Except as the author of a Latin poem eulogistic of the Rev. Cotton Mathers “Magnalls. Americans,” and which may be found, together with a translation, in the Hartford edition of that work (i. 23).

2 Anthology of New Netherland; or, Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York, with Memoirs of the Authors. By Henry C. Murphy. New York, 1865