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An Essay on the Law of Contracts, for the Payment of Specifick Articles (Classic Reprint)
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TO establish civil liberty. And render the caj aye ment of it certain and uniform with all classes of the people, is, or ought to be the great end of all govern ments; that is, to secure all classes of society alike in the cuj oyment of their rights, without any other restraint upon natural liberty, than that which is imposed upon all by equal and expdient laws for the general safety and welfare bf the whole com niunity.
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The Life of Col. Seth Warner, with an Account of the Controversy Between New York and Vermont, from 1763 to 1775
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In the first volume of Sparks' American Biography is a memoir of Ethan Allen from which the reader may obtain as com potent a knowledge of the man as he can desire - he will find his characts1 with all his eccentricities, clearly, truly and fully portrayed. The character of Seth Warner, to whom we are so deeply indebted for the independence of Vermont, and who was so distinguished an officer in the war of the revolution should also pass down to future generations in its true light. To effect this, I shall portray his character as fully as the scanty materials which can be obtained at this late day, and my own recollection of th men of those early times will admit.
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A Memoir of Thomas Chittenden, the First Governor of Vermont; With a History of the Constitution During His Administration
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Daniel Chipman was an American politician, lawyer, educator, and author. He served as professor of law at Middlebury College from 1806 to 1816 and as a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont's 1st district from 1815 to 1816.
Background
Daniel Chipman was descended from John Chipman of Dorchester, England, who came to Boston on the Friendship, July 14, 1631, and settled at Barnstable, Massachusetts. John’s great-grandson, Samuel Chipman, a farmer and blacksmith of Salisbury, Connecticut, married Hannah, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Austin of Suffield, Connecticut, and their seventh son, Daniel, was born on October 22, 1765 at Salisbury, Connecticut, United States.
Education
Daniel’s early education was received at home and after his father’s removal to Tinmouth, Vermont, he studied under his elder brother Nathaniel, assisting also in the farm work. In 1784 he entered Dartmouth College and graduated in 1788. He then took up the study of law in his brother’s office at Rutland, and was admitted to the bar of Rutland County in 1790. In 1848 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Middlebury College.
Career
He first opened an office in Rutland and was a delegate from that place to the state constitutional convention in 1793, but in 1794 moved to Middlebury, where he practised law for twenty-five years. He became state attorney for Addison County, a position which he continued to occupy till 1817. He had, at an early age, taken an active interest in politics, and in 1798 was elected to represent Middlebury in the General Assembly, being reëlected almost continuously till 1808. In that year he was elected to the governor's council and remained a member thereof for seven years, being speaker of the legislature in 1813 and 1814. In 1814 he was elected a representative in Congress, but after serving one session was compelled to resign owing to protracted illness. On regaining his health in 1818 he was once more elected to the Assembly for Middlebury, serving for the sessions of 1818 and 1821. In the latter year he terminated his long connection with the Vermont legislature. He had, in addition to his legal and political engagements, been professor of law at Middlebury College from 1806 till 1816, and on his retirement from active politics devoted part of his time to writing An Essay on the Law of Contracts for the Payment of Specifick Articles, which was published in 1822. In 1823 he was appointed by the legislature the first reporter of the supreme court of Vermont, and prepared volume I of Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of . Vermont, covering the years 1789-1824, which was issued in 1824. Another attack of serious illness compelled him to resign, and in 1829 he retired to Ripton, where he was able to give free rein to his literary proclivities. On two occasions, however, he emerged from his retirement, being a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1843 and 1850. His matured judgment had always carried weight with all parties in Vermont, and he exercised great influence in the five constitutional conventions which he attended. During his last years three valuable biographical works came from his pen: The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, formerly Member of the U. S. Senate and Chief Justice of the State of Vermont, with Selections from his Miscellaneous Papers (1846); The Life of Colonel Seth Warner, with an Account of the Controversy between New York and Vermont from 1763 to 1775 (1848); A Memoir of Thomas Chittenden, the First Governor of Vermont, with a History of the Constitution during his Administration (1849). While attending the constitutional convention of 1850, he collapsed, and was taken to his home at Ripton where he died.