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The Supreme Court of New jfersey. million acres of land. In this, however, he did not succeed; but afterward, in connection with his Jersey friends, did buy 250,000 acres between the two Miamis. This land included the present sites of the cities of Cincinnati and Dayton. Judge Symmes had formed a plan of founding a great city at the north bend of the Ohio River, where he himself and his il lustrious son-in-law President William Henry

Harrison both lived, and which he purposed to call after his own name. A romance is connected with the se lection of the site of Cincinnati. The Com mander of the United States force is said to have fallen in love with a young lady who resided where that city is now situated; and so, despite the welllaid plans of Judge Symmes, the great city of Ohio obtained its present location. He married for his first wife a daughter of a Mr. Tuthill. Anne Symmes, born of this marriage, became the wife of Gen. William ISAAC Henry Harrison; and thus Judge Symmes was the ancestor of Benjamin Harrison, the present President of the United States. Just before he removed to Ohio he married Miss Livingston, the daughter of Governor Liv ingston of New Jersey, for his second wife. The author of the singular theory that the earth was a hollow ball and was inhabited in its interior, was his son, who bore the same name. Judge Symmes presided at the trial of James Morgan, a continental soldier, who was indicted for the murder of the Rev. James Caldwell, the " Fighting Parson," from

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New Jersey. Grave doubts were enter tained as to the guilt of Morgan, but he was convicted and hung. The trial was con ducted very fairly and with great solemnity. Judge Symmes died in 18 14, at Cincinnati, after a very active, busy life, and left behind him the reputation of having been a publicspirited man, and of more than ordinary abil ity. His Western biographer, if he have one, would claim undoubt-edly, as his chief merit, what is recorded on his tombstone, " that he made the first set tlement between the Miami Rivers." There is no report of any of his decisions. His ability as a judge and his merit as a lawyer are to be inferred from the fact that after serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey he had acquired such a repu tation that the Presi dent of the United States selected him as a Judge of the Federal Court in the North west Territory. SMITH Morris was suc ceeded as Chief-Justice by David Hrearley, who at the time of his appointment was a Lieutenant-Colonel in General Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade, to which position he had risen from a subordi nate office. He was a lawyer, and resided in Monmouth County, and was only thirty-four years old when elected Chief-Justice. The appointment was, in a measure, forced upon him, as he preferred to remain in the army, but gave way to the solicitations of the Leg islature that he would accept the position. He seems to have been a man of great ac tivity, and of more than ordinary intellect.