page 400 A stimulus to Belin, perhaps, was the somewhat famous Quaker School of Thomas FRYE, just beyond our Bolton line. English grammar was a speciality. Berlin pupils availed themselves of the advantage. Later Berlin had a somewhat similar school. page 582-Paxton The EARLE's were numerous and prominent in the town's early history and for many years afterwards. Marmaduke EARLE came from Leicester and settled where Nathaniel PARKHURST now lives, about a mile west of the centre, on the Barre Road. He has 14 children. Capt. Ralph EARLE, of Leicester, was the best known of any of the EARLE family. He took prt in the Revolutionary War and performed other and valuable services. One of his sons, R.E.W. EARLE became a famous artist. He made a painting of Niagra Falls which attracted much attention, and subsequently he resided in the South, where he became an inmate of the family of General JACKSON, at the "Hermitage." He painted several portraits of the general and his family. He died there in 1837, and was buried in the garden besides the graves of JACKSON and his wife.