He was asked if there was any thing he should like to have told to the Sunday school children, Yes sir" said he tell them to love the saviour, & pray to him, & read the Bible & NOT PUT IT OFF" Page bl. BOSTON Pub by Pure & Parker. OF NATHAN W. DICKERMAN, WHO DIED AT BOSTON, (Mass.) JANUARY 2, 1830. En the Eighth Year of his Age. BOSTON: PEIRCE & PARKER, 9 CORNHILL 8. N 1833. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. Be it remembered, that on the seventh day of December, A. D. 1830, in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, PEIRCE & PARKER, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Memoir of Nathan W. Dickerman, who died at Boston, Mass. January 2, 1830. In the Eighth Year of his Age." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District 29-234 39 THE following Memoir was submitted in manuscript to the perusal of the Rev. Drs. Jenks and Wisner of this city. Dr. Jenks returned it accompanied with the letter inserted below. Dr. Wisner has added his testimonial to the correctness of the representations. The parents of Nathan have also read the narrative twice in the course of its preparation, and have given it their sanction. Rev. Dr. Jenks's letter is as follows: 'MY DEAR SIR, 'Boston, Sept. 21, 1830. 'I have perused with a deep interest, as you may well imagine, your Memorial of Nathan Dickerman. It has convinced me that I had judged well in urging the task upon you, instead of attempting, as I was repeatedly requested, to do it myself. Your assiduous attention, the frequency of your visits, your practice of reducing to writing the results of your repeated observation-while it was impracticable for me |