BILL OF MORTALITY IN DEERFIELD FOR 20 YEARS. [Communicated by Nathaniel Weare, Esq.] Years. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct|Nor|Dec|Total| 30 and under 40 22 40 and under 50% 20 50 and under 60 60 and under 24 Total No. the mean number being 22 annually. The amount of the ages of the deceased. as nearly as could be ascertained, is 13,626 years & 7 months, which will be 30 years and 9 months, nearly, as an average age. N. B. Those who survived but a few hours are not in|cluded in the average age. *It will be perceived that the greatest number of deaths in any one year was in 1815, in this year the spotted fever was prevalent in this town and proved very mortal; the persons who were attacked there. with commonly died in three days; and so alarming was the distemper that the deceased were conveyed to the grave as soon as possible and frequently buried in the night with but very few attendants. N. B. Exclusive of the foregoing, 13 deaths have taken place this year, 1892. BILL OF MORTALITY FOR WARNER, N. H. For six years commencing Jan. 1, 1817. [Year|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May\Jun\Jul\Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec|Tl. 12 93 42 6 4 3 1 2 0 3 4 2 5 41 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 20 43 3 1 1 3 2 2 0 1817 3 8 19 | 7 13 179 1822 1 3 710 Tot'16 24 18 20 13 112 | 9 10 19 DISEASES.-Fevers, 15; Dysentery, 11; Measles, 9; old age, 7*; Consumption, 43; Casualties, 8; Infantile, 34; various other causes, 53. In 1818 there were but 11 died over 16 years of age, 10 of whom died of consumption—the other of lung fever. * One was 96 years old. Messrs. Editors,-The following are facts which you may insert, if you please, in your historical numbers. As a proof of the salubrity of the climate of New-Hampshire, I state that on the first day ofJanuary, 1823,to my knowledge there were living in this town 60 persons between the ages of 70 and 95 -two totally blind, with sound intellect; one with total loss of sense-the residue enjoying comfortable health, and many capable of labor and business. The oldest, William Burrows, 95 years of age, perfect in sight and hearing, writing a fair hand, and walking with the strength of 60, relating with accuracy his former life. He was a patriot of '75,and now receives a pension as a reward for his services. I shall collect some anecdotes of the first settlers here, and some respecting the revolutionary war, which I will forward in due time.Also the number of deaths for 40 years past, and the disIn haste, yours, &c. B. CHAMPNEY. eases. New-Ipswich, April 30, 1823. COLLECTIONS; Historical and Miscellaneous. JULY, 1823. Biography. MAJOR GENERAL JOHN SULLIVAN. [0 We have read with much satisfaction the "Military Journal" of Dr. Thacher, just published at Boston. Though most of the events he notices have been before related by different authors, he has added some useful facts; and many interesting observations of his own upon the great events of that period, to which with the sublimest feelings we revert, when the public virtue of our country is called in question, or whenever it becomes necessary to defend the principles of our government. Dr. Thacher presents us with several interesting biographical sketches. That of Maj. Gen. SULLIVAN, as we have some additional facts respecting him, and some of his original papers, we insert in the present num ber of the Collections.] "General SULLIVAN has a claim to honorable distinction among the general officers of the American army. Before the revolution he had attained to eminence in the profession of the law, in New-Hampshire. But indulging a laudable ambition for military glory,he relinquished the fairest prospects of fortune and fame, and on the commencement of hostilities, appeared among the most ardent patriots and intrepid warriors. He was a member of the first Congress, in 1774; but preferring a military commission, he was, in 1775, aps pointed a brigadier general of the American army then at Cambridge, and soon obtained the command on Winter Hill. The next year he was ordered to Canada, and on the death of General Thomas, the command of the army devolved on him. The situation of our army in that quarter, was inex pressibly distressing; destitute of clothing, dispirited by defeat and constant fatigue, and a large proportion of the troops sick with the small pox, which was attended by an unpre cedented mortality. By his great exertions and judicious management, he meliorated the condition of the army, and obtained general applause. On his retiring from that command, July 12, 1776, the field officers thus addressed him. "It is to you, Sir, the public are indebted for the preservation of their property in Canada. It is to you we owe our safety thus far. Your humanity will call forth the silent tear and the grateful ejaculation of the sick. Your universal impartiality, will force the applause of the wearied soldier." In August, 1776, he was promoted to the rank of major general, and soon after was, with major general Lord Sterling, captured by the British in the battle on Long Island. General Sullivan being paroled, was sent by General Howe with a message to Congress, after which he returned to NewYork. In September, he was exchanged for Major General Prescott. We next find him in command of the right divis ion of our troops, in the famous battle at Trenton, and he acquitted himself honorably on that ever memorable day. "In August, 1777, without the authority of Congress, or the Commander in Chief, he planned and executed an expedition against the enemy on Staten Island. Though the enterprize was conducted with prudence and success in part, it was said by some to be less brilliant than might have been expected, under his favorable circumstances; and as that act was deemed a bold assumption of responsibility, and reports to his prejudice being in circulation, a court of inquiry was ordered to investigate his conduct. The result was an honorable acquittal, and Congress resolved that the result so honorable to General Sullivan is highly pleasing to Congress, and that the opinion of the court be published, in justification of that injured officer. In the battles of Brandy wine and at Germantown, in the autumn of 1777, General Sullivan commanded a division, and in the latter conflict his two aids were killed, and his own conduct so conspicuously brave, that General Washington, in his letter to Congress, concludes with encomiums on the gallantry of General Sullivan, and the whole right wing of the army, who acted immediately under the eye of his Excellency. In August, 1778, General Sullivan was sole commander of an expedition to the island of Newport, in co-operation with the French fleet un der the Count D'Estaing. The Marquis de la Fayette and General Greene volunteered their services on the occasion. The object of the expedition was defeated, in consequence of the French fleet being driven off by a violent storm. By this unfortunate event,the enemy were encouraged to engage our army in battle, in which they suffered a repulse, and General Sullivan finally effected a safe retreat to the main. This retreat, so ably executed without confusion, or the loss of baggage or stores, increased the military reputation of General Sullivan, and redounds to his honor as a skilful commander. "The bloody tragedy, acted at Wyoming, in 1778,had dctermined the Commander in Chief, in 1779, to employ a large detachment from the continental army to penetrate into the heart of the Indian country, to chastize the hostile tribes and their white associates and adherents, for their cruel aggressions on the defenceless inhabitants. The command of this expedition was committed to Major General Sullivan, with express orders to destroy their settlements, to ruin their crops, and make such thorough devastations, as to render the country entirely uninhabitable for the present, and thus to compel the savages to remove to a greater distance from our frontiers. General Sullivan had under his command several brigadiers and a well chosen army, to which were attached a number of friendly Indian warriors. With this force he penetrated about ninety miles through a horrid swampy wilderness and barren mountainous deserts,to Wyoming, on the Susquehanna river, thence by water to Tioga, and possessed himself of numerous towns and villages of the savages. During this hazardous expedition, General Sullivan and his army encountered the most complicated obstacles, requiring the greatest fortitude and perseverance to surmount. He explored an extensive tract of country, and strictly executed the severe, but necessary orders he had received. A considerable number of Indians were slain, some were captured, their habitations were burnt, and their plantations of corn and vegetables laid waste in the most effectual manner. "Eighteen villages, a number of detached buildings, one hundred and sixty thousand bushels of corn, and those fruits and vegetables, which conduce to the comfort and subsistence of man, were utterly destroyed. Five weeks were unremittingly employed in this work of devastation." On his return from the expedition, he and his army received the approbation of Congress. It is remarked on this expedition, by the translator of M. Chastelleux's travels, an Englishman then resident in the United States, that the instructions. given by General Sullivan to his officers, the order of march he prescribed to his troops, and the discipline he had the ability to maintain, would have done honor to the most experienced ancient or modern generals. At the close of the campaign of 1779, General Sullivan, in consequence of im |