A LINK WITH THE PAST.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—While visiting at Norwich, Connecticut, not long ago, I called at the offices of an eminent lawyer (Hon. John Turner Wait), for many years a Member of Congress at Washington, and still engaged in the practice of his profession. Happening to refer to his advanced age, he informed me that he was born in August, 1811; and that his father, Judge Wait (who was a presidential elector at the first election of General Washing- ton), was born in 1746, the year of the battle of Culloden. These dates are quite beyond question, being recorded in a biography written nearly forty years ago ; and I venture to ask if you or any of your readers know of any other pro. fessional man, now living and working, whose paternity is linked with so distant a past P—I am, Sir, &C.,
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