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JOSHUA WOODROW SILL.

N 1637, there came from Newcastle-upon-Tyne John Sill and his wife Joanna. They settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their children, Joseph and Elizabeth, born in England, married and died in this country, leaving to their posterity honored and well-loved names. Joseph, the eldest son, distinguished himself in the Indian war of 1676. History tells us he was feared by King Philip and his Wampanoags; his musket rarely missed its aim, while his daring and courage won for him the confidence of his superior officers. At the close of the war, Captain Sill removed from Cambridge to Lyme, Connecticut. In 1677 he married his second wife, Mrs. Sarah Marvin, of Lyme. From their youngest son, Zechariah, born in 1682, Joshua Woodrow Sill was a direct descendant.

Captain Joseph," of Indian warfare renown, was not the only member of the Sill family who distinguished himself as a soldier. His grandson, Zechariah Sill, was with the American army in the vicinity of Boston, and assisted in erecting the fortifications on Dorchester Heights during the memorable night of the fourth of March, 1776. Zechariah Sill's nephew, Joseph, son of the Rev. Richard Sill, of West-Granville, New-York, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in West-Granville, and there prepared for college. He graduated at Middlebury, Vermont, in 1809, and commenced the study of law, but afterward removed to Philadelphia, entered the law-office of Spencer and John Sargeant, and was there admitted to the bar in 1814. This same year he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he settled in the practice of his profession, and has since resided. He has represented his district in the State Legislature, and held, for seve ral years, the office of District Attorney for the counties of Ross, Jackson, and Pike. Although fast verging on the limits of fourscore, he still possessed a strong mind, and an earnest, invincible determination never to sacrifice those principles of our Government which were connate with his New-England descent. In 1824 he married his first wife, Elizabeth Woodrow, daughter of Joshua Woodrow, a Quaker, of Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio.

Mrs. Sill was an uncommon woman. Child of the first generation of the pioneer's descendants, she had what was in those days a remarkable love for, and acquaintance with the English literature of the past century. The graces of her life were not the mere external accomplishments which pass for so much in our time,