pages 735,736 He had at different times traveled in various parts of the country, and had a comprehensive appreciation alike its resources and its need. He took special pains to familiarize himself with statue law. He wrote legal documents and had charge of pecuniary trusts, and settled estates. He wrote many wills, and often, by wise suggestion, impressed upon men in the disposal of their property the importance of making liberal provision for their wives, a consideration which is too often found overlooked. Although never admitted to the Bar, he was still a legal advisor, consulted by people of his own and neighboring towns. This service was to a large extent gratuitous. He was pre-eminently the friend and helper of widows, orphans and the poor. Men and women of all classes and different nationalities resorted to him for counsel and help. They came to him with their quarrels, their business perplexities, their financial troubles, their plans and enterprises and their sorrows; and found in him an attentive sympathizing friend. He was, perhaps, more than any other person, familiar with the locations and history of Leicester and the lives of its former inhabitants; andto him, more largely than is generally known, Govenor Emory WASHBURN was indebted for the materials of his excellent history of the town. His manuscript notes, his "Reminiscences of Leicester", published in the Worcester Spy, and his journal which is a record of passing events, are of great historical value. He may be truthfully termed the annalist of Leicester.