thought and boldness of execution, was inferior to none in that pure morality, that unsophisticated integrity, that sound, discriminating judgment, so essential for the practitioner of medicine; which exalt and dignify the professor, and render him a blessing to the community.

FRANCIS JOHNSON.

FRANCIS JOHNSON was a native of the State of Pennsylvania. He had just commenced the practice of the law when the Revolutionary War commenced; when, abandoning his private pursuits, he joined General Anthony Wayne in raising a body of men, which were commanded by Wayne as Colonel, and Johnson as LieutenantColonel. Upon the promotion of Colonel Wayne, the subject of this memoir succeeded to the command of the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment, with which he was present at many of the most sanguinary conflicts during the war: at Ticonderoga, Stony Point, Monmouth, Brandywine, and other battles. After the restoration of peace, he held several offices of honor and profit under the Government of his native State; and, in his declining years, having had his fortune materially injured by misplaced confidence, he was elected to the very lucrative and honorable office of High Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia. He was elected to this by those who differed with him in political opinion, thereby showing, however true the charge of ingratitude may be against republics generally, that the people of republican America have not forgotten the services of those to whose exertions they are indebted for the liberty they now enjoy. He died, in Philadelphia, on the 22d February, 1815, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was a benevolent man and a kind friend.

JOHN JONES, M.D.

DR. JONES, a physician, of Welsh extraction, was the son of Evan Jones, a physician, and was born at Jamaica, Long Island, in 1729. After studying physic with Dr. Cadwalader, at Philadelphia, he completed his medical education in Europe,—at London, Paris, Leyden, and Edinburgh. On his return, he settled at New York, and was particularly eminent as a surgeon. In the war of 1775, he served as a surgeon in the army. The French commander, Dieskau, severely wounded, was attended by him. On the esta blishment of a medical school in New York, he was appointed Professor of Surgery. Soon after he settled in the city, the physicians agreed, for their own dignity, to wear their hair in a particular bob, and he, refusing to concur in the project, they refused to consult with him. But he soon triumphed, and the powers of ridicule compelled the medical men to wear their hair like other gentlemen. In the Revolutionary War he left the city when it was occupied by the enemy. In 1780, he settled in Philadelphia, where he was the physician of Washington and Franklin. He died June 23d, 1791, aged sixty-two years. In his religious views he was a Quaker.

COMMODORE JACOB JONES.

COMMODORE JONES, of the United States Navy, was born in Smyrna, Delaware, in 1770, studied medicine, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, but soon abandoned the practice of his profession. In 1790, he entered the navy as a midshipman; in 1801 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant; was an officer of the frigate Philadelphia, under Captain Bainbridge, when she was captured, in 1803, in the harbor of Tripoli; remained a prisoner for eighteen months thereafter; in 1810, was promoted to the rank of master-commandant, and when war was declared against Great