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take and carry away the said Luke Knowl- tion and enterprise, of few words, but ton, and, if the breaking a house and taking possessed of the keenest perception and an and carrying away a person, as aforesaid, intuitive knowledge of human nature, of amounts to burglary, we say he is guilty, which he is a perfect judge." He was if not, we say he is not guilty." The judg called by the populace, " Saint Luke "; but ment of a Court composed of a doctor and little is known of the life of Mr. Knowlton, a few farmers was "Not guilty." Could except what has been above stated. The Coke or Kent have done better?

materials for an accurate biography of him He soon became prominent in the affairs have to a great extent been lost. The of the State, but it village in which he re was some time before sided, Newfane Hill, the people became long the county seat satisfied of his hearty of Windham County, devotion to Vermont. containing the court When appointed one house, jail, academy, of the county judges, tavern, stores and the people petitioned other buildings, has the government to gone to decay, and retain his commission, from the spot which but it was issued, and marks its site no the State afterwards buildings are to be seen, except upon the had no one more surrounding hills, far loyal to her interests than Mr. Knowlton. distant. The ceme He represented Newtery alone is left, and in it stands the tomb fane in 1784, 1785, stone which records 1 786, 1788, 1789 and the death of " Luke 1792, was a member Knowlton, a Judge of of the Governor's the Supreme Court, Council from 178910 on the twelfth day 1 800, inclusive, and a of December, 1810." member of the Cons HOMER E. ROYCE. The ' Washingtonian ' titutional Convention of the thirty-first day of 1793. In 1786 he was elected judge of the Supreme Court and of that month records his death as follows : served one year, but was omitted in the " Died, at Newfane, Luke Knowlton, Esq., list at the end of that time, when the aged 72, one of the first settlers, and number of judges was reduced from five to most useful citizen of Vermont." three, but at the same time he was elected Stephen Row Bradley. One of Crom Chief Judge of the county court, and served until 1794; he was afterwards elected well's men, Stephen Bradley, came to New county judge, and served one year, begin Haven, Conn., about the year 1650; his son, Moses, married Mary Row, and their ning in October, 1802. Mr. Graham, in speaking of Newfane, says : son, Stephen Row Bradley, graduated at "This town owes its consequence in a Yale in 1775 and commanded the Cheshire great measure to Mr. Luke Knowlton, the volunteers in the Continental service in leading character and a man of great ambi- January, 1776. He was adjutant and soon