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obtained employment at the coiirt of the Prince of Reuss-Greitz, but, resigning a few montJis later, devoted the remainder of his life to the arrange- ment and publication of the material he had col- lected during his travels. He published " Reisen im Siidlichen Amerika" (2 vols., Dresden, 1754); "Neueste Reisen durch Amerika" (2 vols., 1755): " Grundlehren der Anatomic und Physiologic der Pflanzen" (2 vols., Berlin, 1756); " Neueste Ge- schiehte und Beschreibungdes Brodbaums " (1758) : " Flora Cubana. exhibens eharacteres generum et specierum plantarum circa Havana crescentium " (2 vols., Leipsic, 1758); " Criptogam;e Brasilienses ab Nascher collecta?, cui additus lexicon in quo terminis artis breviter exponuntur " (1760) ; " Bilder und Skizzen der Umgebungen von Havana" (Ber- lin, 1762) ; '• Land und Leute der Insei Cuba " (1762) ; and several other works.
NASH, Abner, governor of North Carolina, b.
in Prince Edward county, Va., 8 Aug., 1716 ; d. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 2 Dec, 1786. He removed to
New-Berne, N. C, at an early age, practised law
with success, represented that town in the first Pro-
vincial congress which met there. 25 Aug., 1774,
and previous to the Revolution and during its con-
tinuance was active in the patriot cause. He was
one of the provincial council in 1775, one of the
council and committee that framed the state con-
stitution in 1776, the first speaker of the house
of commons that assembled in North Carolina,
speaker of the senate in 1779. and governor from
the latter year till 1781. The period of his adminis-
tration was the gloomiest part of the Revolutionary
war in North Carolina, and he seems to have been
of too feeble health or too easy temper for such
times. Flis first assembly, 17 April, 1780, made
Gen. Richard Caswell the commander of all the
militia of the state, although by the constitution
the governor was commander-in-chief, and at its
session in September it appointed a board of war to
manage military operations, which was a still
larger invasion of his rights. At its meeting in
December it made him a member only of a "council extraordinary," to which the supreme executive authority was confided. He declined to serve longer than the spring of 1781, was succeeded by
Thomas Burke, and in 1782-'6 was a member of the Continental congress. His death occurred during his attendance on that body. — His brother, Francis, soldier, b. in Prince Edward county, Va., 10 May, 1720; d. in Germantown. Pa.. 7 Oct.', 1777, was clerk of the superior court of Orange county. N. C, held a captain's commission under the crown, and in the latter capacity served against the Regulators at the battle of Alamance in 1771. He was
a member of the Provincial congress that met in
Hillsborough in August, 1775, and was appointed by
that body lieutenant-colonel of one of the two regi-
ments that were then forming for the Continental
service. He was commissioned brigadier-general
by the Continental congress in February, 1777,
joined Gen. Washington and commanded a bi'igade
at the battle of Germantown. where he was mor-
tally wounded. In November of that year con-
gress passed a resolution that a monument of tlie
value of $500 be erected to his memory at the ex-
pense of the government, but it was never carried
into effect. — Abner's son, Frederick, jurist, b. in
New-Berne. N. C, 9Feb., 1781 : d. in Hillsborough,
N. C, 5 Dec, 1858, was graduated at Princeton in
1799, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and
represented New - Berne in the legislature in
1813-'17. He was a judge of the superior court
from 1818 till his resignation in 1824. was re-
elected to that office in 1836, and in 1844 was raised
to the supreme bench. From the resignation of
Judge Thomas Ruffin in 1852, he was chief justice
of North Carolina until his death.
NA8H, Daniel, clergyman, b. in Housatonic
(now Great Barrington), Mass., 28 May, 1763 ; d. in
Burlington, N. Y., 4 June. 1836. He was graduat-
ed at Yale in 1785, and for about ten years was
principal of an academy, first at Pittsgrove, and
afterward at Swedesborough, N. J. He was origi-
nally a Congregationalist, but became a communi-
cant in the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1794
he took charge of an academy at New Lebanon
Springs, N. Y. Soon afterward he began to pre-
pare for orders, and was ordained deacon in St.
George's chapel. New York, 8 Feb., 1797. by Bishop
Provoost, and priest in October, 1801. by Bishop
Benjamin Moore. From the time of his ordina-
tion for nearly forty years he labored incessantly
in the discharge of his duties as missionary in
Otsego and Chenango counties, N. Y., and was
everywhere known as Father Nash.
NASH, Simeon, jurist, b. in South Hadlev,
Mass., 21 Sept., 1804 ; d. in Gallipolis, Ohio, 19 Jan., ,
1879. He was graduated at Amherst in 1829, and
began the practice of law at Gallipolis, Ohio. He
served in the state senate in 1839-'41. in the State
constitutional convention in 1852, and from that
year till 1862 was judge of the 7th district of Ohio.
From the latter date till his death he practised his
profession. His publications include "Digest of
Ohio Reports" (20 vols., Cincinnati, 1853); " Plead-
ing and Practice imder the Civil Code" (1856);
" Morality and the State " (Columbus. 1859) ;
" Pleading and Practice " (Cincinnati, 1875) ; and
" Crime and the Family " (1876).
NASH, Stephen Payne, lawyer, b. in Albany,
N. Y., 26 Aug.. 1821 ; d'. in Bernardsville, N. J., 4
June, 1898. He was educated at the French college
at Chamblay, Canada, began the practice of law in
Saratoga, N. Y., and resided there and in Albany
till 1845, when he removed to New York city. He
was a founder of the New York bar association in
1863, and in 1880 became its president. He was a
trustee of Columbia college, a member of the vestry
of Trinity church, and was prominent in the de-
bates of the diocesan conventions of New York.
NASIMBEN, Pedro (nah-seem-ben'), Italian
missionary, b. in Venice, 8 April, 1703; d. in Santa
Rosa, Cal., in 1755. He entered the Society of
Jesus in Italy in 1719, and in 1733 was sent by
his superiors to New Spain. In 1735 he was
assigned to the missions in California, where he died
after twenty years of successful labor in converting
the Indians. He wrote “Noticias del
establecimiento y estado de la Mision de Santa Rosa, y
de sus pueblos de la Trinidad y San Marcos en
California” (Mexico, 1750).
NASON, Elias, clergyman, b. in Wrentham,
Mass., 21 April, 1811; d. m North Billerica, Mass.,
17 June, 1887. He taught to obtain means to enter
college, was graduated at Brown in 1835, taught in
Augusta, Ga., in 1836-'40, edited the “Georgia
Courier,” and lectured throughout the state on the
flora of the south. Returning to the north, he
settled in Newburyport, Mass., edited the “Watchtower,”
became master of the Latin-school, and
subsequently of the high-school, and in 1852 was
ordained pastor of the Congregational church in
Natick. He officiated at Needham in 1858-'60,
served on the Christian commission during the
civil war, writing and lecturing in support of the
National government. From 1865 till his death
he resided in North Billerica, and constantly
supplied adjoining churches. He was a successful
lecturer, spoke several languages, was a member of
