Thomas Green Fessenden, an American author and journalist, born in Walpole, N.

II., April 22, 1771, died in Boston, Nov. 11, 1837. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1796, and studied law in Vermont, employing his leisure hours in writing humorous poems and other papers for the "Farmer'sWeekly Museum of Walpole, then edited by Joseph Dennie. In 1801 he went to England as the agent for a newly invented machine, the failure of which to answer its purpose involved him in pecuniary difficulties. He produced in 1803 a poem entitled "Terrible Tractoration," in which the metallic tractors of Perkins are advertised, and the medical profession is satirized. It was successful in London, where it was published anonymously. It was republished in New York in 1804, and again in 1806 in an enlarged form, under the title of "The Minute Philosopher." A third edition appeared toward the close of the author's life. He returned to America in 1804, and was engaged in various avocations till 1822, when he commenced the publication of the "New England Farmer," with which he remained connected during the remainder of his life. He also edited the "Horticultural Register" and the "Silk Manual." and contributed articles to a variety of journals.

His remaining works are: Original Poems," published in England and America; Democracy Unveiled (1806); American Clerk's Companion (1815); The Ladies' Monitor" (1818); and "Laws of Patents for new Inventions" (1822).