ers of Dorchester, now a part of Boston; later he
helped to found Northampton, Massachusetts.

Mrs. Hale's grandfather, Joseph Strong, represented
Coventry for sixty-five sessions in the
General Assembly of Connecticut, and when he
was ninety years of age he presided over the town
meeting, suggesting by that deed a man of some
vigor, for town meetings were no playdays in those
early years. His descendants, active in whatever
their hands found to do,--in the ministry, the
law, business, or politics,--were long prominent
in New England and New York, and doubtless
many are to-day still helping to mold their country's
future.

The son of this Justice Joseph Strong was also
named Joseph, and called Captain Joseph Strong.
In 1724 he married his second cousin, Elizabeth
Strong. He, too, was a noted man among the
colonists. She, later, became the "grandmother"
to whom Nathan so warmly alludes in one of his
last letters to his brother. Captain Joseph Strong
and his wife were the parents of Elizabeth Strong
who, in her nineteenth year, married Richard Hale.

To Elizabeth Strong Hale we can give but a
passing notice. There is not, it is believed, one
word that she wrote now in existence, nor any
record left of that gracious womanhood, save a

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