Hannah Adams, one of the earliest female writers in America, born at Medlield, near Boston, in 1755, died at Brookline, Mass., Nov. 15, 1832. She showed at an early age a fondness for study, and acquired a knowledge of Greek and Latin from some divinity students boarding with her father. During the revolutionary war she supported herself by making lace, and afterward by teaching. Her "View of Religious Opinions " (1784) and her " History of New England" (1799) were both successful. Her next work was "Evidences of Christianity " (1801). Her writings brought her little pecuniary profit; yet they secured her many friends, among them the Abbe Gre-goire, with whom she carried on a correspondence, through which he aided Her in preparing her "History of the Jews" (1812). During the closing years of her life she enjoyed an annuity provided by some friends in Boston. She was the first person whose remains were interred in Mt. Auburn cemetery.