Be so good as to let me hear from you as soon as you conveniently can upon this most interesting Subject in which the Happiness and Usefulness of Thousands yet unborn may so much depend -- .
Iam with the utmost Sincerity & Truth Revd & Dear Sir Your most Obedient & most humble Servant Rev M* Miles Cooper. " H. Baxcock?!
left two sons, Cortlandt and Frederick ; the latter was the father of the late Mrs
W.L. Morris, of Yonkers. He also left one daughter, Henrietta, who married' a Mr, Richard Saltonstal, of New-York. There is a fine portrait of the Rev,
Luke Babcock in the possession of Mrs. Babcock, of St. Marks Place, N. Y. He is represented in gown and bands, his head reslening on his right arm, which rests upon a book. There is something extremely calm and placid i in his countenance, corresponding with his benevolent mind. Boxron.
1 Col. Henry Baxcoocx, eldest brother of the Rev. Luke B. » was born in 1736, entered Yale College at the age of twelve, and took his degree es sixteen years old, At the age of eighteen he was Caption of an independent company of infan: try, and at nineteen marched to Albany, thence to Lake George, where he forms ed part of the force under Col. Williams, which was. defeated by Baron Dieskan, He was promoted to the rank of Major in the following year; at the age of twentyone was Lieutenant-Colonel, and next year Colonel of the R. I. regiment. In 1758 he marched 500 men with the army against Ticonder oga, where he had 110 men killed and wounded. He himself received a musket ball in the knee. He was afterwards at the capture of the same fort by Gen. Amherst. In 1761, he went to England, where he spent a year, and soon after his return married and settled at Stonington, Conn., and commenced the practice of the law. [It seems by the above letter, he was seston to enter orders, We find him afterwards engaged in the Lake Superior copper speculations.] When the revolution broke out, he joined the whig party, and in 1776 was appointed by the Legislature commander of the forces at Newport.