New Haven a collection (sixteen pages) of favorite psalm tunes from late and approved British authors, the whole never before printed in America. He died in New Haven June 5, 1823.

OLIVER BROWNSON

OLIVER BROWNSON, of Connecticut, was the compiler of two collections of sacred music. In 1783 his Select Harmony, containing eighty-four pages of engraved music, was printed in New Haven, by Thomas and Samuel Green. The American compositions in this book have their authors' names set over the tunes, and it appears that many of the compositions were original with the compiler, while others were by such authors as were then well known-Edson, Billings, and Swan. There was another edition printed in 1791, containing the same music, but the preface and introduction are in a smaller type.

His second book appears to be very rare. It was A New Collection of Sacred Harmony, and was printed at Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1797, and was sold by the author at his dwelling house. It had fifty-six pages, and, like the other, was oblong in shape.

In 1775 Oliver King, of Bolton, Connecticut, advertised for subscriptions to his Universal Harmony, and added that they would be received, among others, by Oliver Brunson (or Brownson), singing master, Litchfield.

JUSTIN MORGAN

1747-1798

JUSTIN MORGAN was born in 1747 at West Springfield, Massachusetts. Besides being a musician, he is known as the breeder of the Morgan horse. The following items are taken from advertisements in various papers. For the season of 1778 he advertised Sportsman at his home in West Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1783 he kept Diamond and advertised him in the Massachusetts Gazette of April 29 as follows:

Will cover the season at the stable of Mr. Justin Morgan in West Springfield, the horse called Diamond, who sprang from a good mare, and from the horse formerly owned by Mr. Church of Springfield.

The season of 1783 he kept the stallion, True Briton. This is the last season Mr. Morgan is known to have kept the stallion before his removal to Vermont in 1788. He moved to Randolph, Vermont, between June 20 and September 3, 1788. His health was delicate, and he was unable to do any hard work after he was twenty years old. He taught writing schools, singing schools and the common district schools for many years, the proceeds of which, together with the money from his horses-when he had them-and from his little tavern constituted his means of livelihood.

As a teacher he seems to have been successful, and was greatly liked wherever he went on account of his urbane manners and upright character. He was married at the age of about thirty, and four daugh

ters and one son were born to him. His second daughter, Emily, afterward Mrs. Edgerton, was born in February, 1786; Justin, March 15, 1788; Nancy, September 3, 1788, at Randolph, Vermont; Polly, March 10, 1791, at Randolph. Ten days after the birth of this last child Mrs. Martha Morgan, the wife and mother, died at Randolph. These last three dates appear on the records of Randolph. The date September 3, 1788, indicates the approximate date of the removal of the family to Vermont. Mr. Morgan was chosen lister in Randolph March 19, 1789, and town clerk March 9, 1790, and held the latter office until March 18, 1793. In the spring of that year the family was broken up, and the children found homes in the families of different neighbors, the son, Justin, then seven years old, together with his sister Emily, going to live with Daniel Carpenter, by whom they were brought up. Mr. Morgan never had his little family together again. He survived only five years, and died at Randolph on the second of March, 1798, in his fiftyfirst year. The little property that he left was appraised at only $160.13, as appears from the probate records, where the different articles are enumerated. There is no horse or livestock in the appraisal. It is therefore apparent that he had parted with his famous horse some time before his death, and there is no evidence that he ever owned any other horse in Vermont than the one known as the Morgan horse. On the 17th of November, 1800, a dividend of thirteen cents was ordered paid to the creditors. Thus closes the short and simple annals of the man who brought into the then young and

growing Green Mountain State a most interesting and important element of its prosperity.

Mahlon Cottrell, who drove the stage from Royalton to Montpelier, states that he often met Mr. Morgan on the original Morgan horse going to his singing schools.

Mr. Morgan composed many tunes, a remarkable anthem called "Judgement Anthem," and left a book of manuscript music. One of his tunes, "Montgomery," was introduced into The Antiquarian, by Leonard Marshall as late as 1849, but his music has now passed entirely out of use, and is of interest only to the historian.

ANDREW LAW

1748-18211

A MUSICAL magazine, a new form of musical notation, and several compilations of tunes, original and selected, are the additions made by Andrew Law to the literature of American psalmody, which in his day was extremely meager. The period, however, during which his pen was productive, saw the rise of many native musicians, and music books increased rapidly in numbers. William Billings, of Boston, was perhaps the most influential of the new writers, and he had many followers. The music of Mr. Law did not prove lasting and none of his pieces are to be found in modern collections.

A large part of the life of Andrew Law was

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devoted to the teaching of music, so that the account of his activities is to be obtained from his music books, but these facts indicate his preparation. He was born in Milford, Connecticut, in March, 1748, was the oldest son of Jahleel Law and Ann Baldwin, and the grandson of Governor Law, of that State. When he was five years old the family removed to Cheshire, and with that town he was more or less closely connected the rest of his life. He joined the church there in 1769. He graduated from Brown University in 1775, and received his master's degree from the same institution three years later. In the meantime he had been studying divinity, according to the custom of that day when there were no theological schools, with the Rev. Levi Hart, of Preston, Connecticut, and in 1777 we find him preaching in Chesterfield, that State. Yale conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1786, and Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, then in its infancy, honored him with LL.D. in 1821. He was ordained as a minister September 8, 1787, at Hartford, by a Congregational council, and on the 18th of October following he was recommended by the Philadelphia Presbytery to preach in the South. Mr. John W. Moore, a prolific writer about musicians, states that "as late as 1820 Mr. Law resided in Newark and from thence wrote letters for publication, recommending his system of notation." In another place he notes that "he died in New Haven, Connecticut, 1824," though "it had been stated by Allibone that he died in Cheshire in 1821." Evidently, Moore did not have access to papers that would verify his statements, for we may