He made choice of the profession of law, and commenced the study under Tappan Reeve of Elizabethtown.
He appeared affected during the sermon, and Mr. Tappan kept his eye on him.
On the 2d of October, 1780, a young British officer of undistinguished birth and inconsiderable rank was hanged at Tappan.
Mr. Tappan's house on Long Island is in an exposed situation; but he hired no guard, and lost not an hour's sleep.
There was some regulation against such transfer; but Tappan's step-father, Frank Wright, thought it could be done.
