his despatches, he left her in an open boat, landed under the fire of the enemy, and thus succeeded. A short time after, she was captured, and everything he had, including a medical library collected in England and France, was lost. Immediately on his arrival in America he joined the army as surgeon, and became SurgeonGeneral of Pennsylvania, and continued with it until the peace, taking an active and most decided part in favor of America.

The Friends were inclined to expel him from their Society, for his, as they conceived, breach of their favorite principle of non-resistance; but in exhibiting to them a letter from Dr. Fothergill, advising him to the course he pursued, were induced to pass the matter over. The Doctor, in taking part with his fellow-citizens, was well aware of the consequent loss of the patronage of his uncle, so well known and so influential a man, who would no doubt have introduced him to an extensive practice in his profession among the most wealthy of the Society of Friends. After the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British army, he was called upon to act as one of the Committee of Safety. He was frequently at headquarters in times of peculiar difficulties. He was appointed, by the Act establishing the University of Pennsylvania, when but twenty-seven years of age, one of the Trustees; elected Professor of Chemistry by that institution; chosen a member of the Philosophical Society, and Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital: in all of which situations he continued during his life. His abilities as a physician were universally acknowledged. At the time of the yellow fever, in 1793, his exertions, day and night, were unceasing, but beyond his strength. He fell a lamented victim to that fatal disease, on the 5th day of September of that year.

Dr. Hutchinson deserves a conspicuous place in the medical annals of Philadelphia. At one time he held the post of Physician for the Port of Philadelphia. To unquestioned talents and opportunities for acquiring professional distinction, and enlarging his field of usefulness, he added a winning address and popular manners. The road to fame and wealth was opened to him, but it was suddenly closed by death.

He married Miss Sydney Howell, the daughter of a respectable citizen of Philadelphia. He was an excellent husband, a fond father, and a most generous and humane man.

The gold medal presented to him, in 1774, by the Trustees of the Philadelphia College, for his superior knowledge in chemistry, had on one side a laurel branch, with the inscription, on the exergue: "Jacobus Hutchinson, 1774." On the reverse, a retort; on the exergue: "Naturæ Artisque Arcana Retexi. College."

Dr. Hutchinson took a warm part in the local politics of Pennsylvania, both during the American war, and after the peace. He belonged to the Democratic party, and possessed great influence. But although often solicited to fill respectable offices at the choice of the people, he always declined the compliment. He was the intimate and confidential friend of the leading men of the Revolution, and was at all times received at headquarters, and often invited to give advice by the Commander-in-Chief relative to the medical department.

His first wife was Lydia Biddle, the sister of Clement Biddle, a distinguished citizen of Philadelphia.

JARED INGERSOLL.

BY CHARLES J. INGERSOLL.

JARED INGERSOLL was the only child of Jared Ingersoll, of Connecticut, who represented that Colony as Commissioner in England when Franklin resided there in a similar capacity for Pennsylvania.

The family was altogether and exclusively English, without Scots, Irish, German, Swiss, French, Spanish, or any others of the foreign lineage common in so many other Americans, and had been Americanized by more than a century's descent in New England, when Jared Ingersoll, the second, was born.

In 1761-2, his father returned from England with the obnoxious appointment, which his friend Franklin there induced him to undertake, of Stamp-Master-General for the New England Colonies.

Compelled by a tumultuous assemblage of his fellow-colonists forcibly to relinquish that place, Jared Ingersoll, the elder, was then appointed Admiralty Judge for the Colony of Pennsylvania,

whereupon he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided till the Revolution.

His son Jared, after graduating at Yale College, chose Philadelphia for his residence, and the Bar for his profession. Repairing to England to accomplish his professional education, he was entered of the Middle Temple; and, during five years passed in London, diligently studied the science of law, and attended its practice in the courts. Mansfield, Blackstone, Chatham, Garrick, and other luminaries of that period, were objects of his constant attention, and of his correspondence, and ever after among the pleasures of his memory. Literature, as well as law, was his study; polite society his enjoyment. He formed acquaintances with the distinguished lawyers and members of Parliament.

Soon after the American Revolution was completely pronounced he espoused its cause with the considerate preference of youthful patriotism. Although the only child of a loyalist, he did not hesitate, without filial offence, to side with his own against the mother country, where he had for several years resided.

Taking, therefore, his departure from a country to which he disclaimed allegiance, he passed over to France, and spent a year and a half in Paris. There he added the French language to his acquirements. His father's friend, Franklin, living at Passy, as Minister of the United States, kindly welcomed Mr. Ingersoll there. With Ralph Isard, appointed Minister to Italy, but staying in Paris, John Julius Pringle, of South Carolina, and other afterwards distinguished Americans, Mr. Ingersoll likewise formed intimacies in Paris, which subsisted during life. These southern associations, without diminishing his native eastern attachments, liberalized his patriotism, freed from local and sectional prejudices, and imbued his politics with that spirit of enlarged nationality in which, following Washington, he always abided.

Returning by a winter passage in a small schooner, he escaped perils of the sea and of hostile capture, and resumed, a superior lawyer, the place he ever after occupied at the Bar of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was then the seat of Government, both Federal and State. The Supreme Court of the United States, and of the State, held their sessions there, where the most elevated jurisprudence in every branch of law was dispensed. In these courts Jared Ingersoll