American author, born at Charlestown, MA, on the 1st of October 1795; was graduated at Middlebury College in 1820, studied law, and in 1823 engaged in the practice of his profession at Montpelier, VT, where he held numerous local offices, among them being county judge of probate court. He was clerk of the supreme court, and afterward secretary of state from 1853 to 1855, and contributed to magazines and the press, besides publishing volumes of romance and poetry descriptive of New England life, including The Green Mountain Boys (1840); The Rangers (1851); Gant Garley (1857); and a History of Montpelier (1860). He also compiled the laws of Vermont (1824–34). He died at Montpelier on the 6th of June 1868.
