FLINT, Timothy, clergyman, born in Reading, Massachusetts, 11, July 1780; (t. in Salem, Massachusetts, 16 August 1840. He was gradated at Harvard in 1800, entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, and settled in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, in 1802. He was a diligent student in natural science, and his chemical experiments led ignorant persons to charge him with counterfeiting coin. He prosecuted them for slander. Ill feeling, increased by political differences, arose between him and his parishioners, which caused him to resign his charge in 1814. He then preached in various parts of New England, and in 1815 went to the west as missionary, and spent seven or eight years in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. In 1825 he returned to Massachusetts, broken in health and fortune. He then gave his attention to literature. In 1.825 he removed to Cincinnati, where he edited the "Western Review" for three years, he went to New York in 1833, and conducted a few numbers of the "Knickerbocker Magazine."

Afterward he resided in Alexandria, Louisiana, but spent most of his summers in New England. His publications are "Recollections of Ten Years passed in the Valley of the Mississippi" (Boston, 1826; reprinted in London, and translated into French); "Francis Berrian; or, The Mexican Patriot" (Boston, 1826); "Condensed Geography and History of the Western States in the Mississippi Valley" (2 vols., Cincinnati, 1828; 2d ed., 1832); "Arthur Clenning" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1828); " George Mason ; or, The Young Backwoodsman" (1829); "Shoshonee Valley" (Cincinnati, 1830); a translation of Droz's "Essay on the Art of Being Happy" (Boston, 1832); "Indian Wars in the West" (Cincinnati, 1833); "Lectures on Natural History, Geology, Chemistry, and the Arts" (Boston, 1833); a translation of "Celibacy Vanquished ; or, The Old Bachelor Reclaimed" (Philadelphia 1834); and a "Memoir of Daniel Boone" (Cincinnati, 1834). He contributed a series of Dapers on "American Literature" to the London "Athenaeum" in 1855.  His son, Micah P., lawyer, born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, in 1807; died in 1830, was educated by his father, and traveled with him in the south and west. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Alexandria, Miss. He published "The Hunter, and Other Poems" (Boston, 1826), and contributed to the "Western Review."

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Samuel Huntington
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in Congress Assembled
March 1, 1781 to July 6, 1781

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