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mentioned his paraphrase of the 148'^ Psalm, which was adopted in the
Hymnal of the Episcopal Church, and stands as No. 433."
"Another early poetical production of Professor De Wolf, written
during the war with Great Britain in 18 12, has been preserved, and may be
found in a volume of naval and patriotic odes published in 1813 .
a poem or song descriptive of the seizure and sufferings of American
seamen who were taken from our vessels by British cruisers, and impressed
into the British Navy. It is entitled ' The Youthful Sailor,' and American
seamen who were taken prisoners and confined in the famous Dartmoor
prison, in England, during the war, informed Professor De Wolf, after
their liberation and return home, that they often sung this song during
their imprisonment, and thereby excited the ire of the prison-officials, who
repeatedly forbade them to use it, but they continued to sing it nevertheless.
" The well known '
Life
of Deacon Goodman, wherein is shown the
inconvenience of not having a musical ear' was written by Professor
De Wolf not many years before his death. It first appeared in a Boston
paper, and was extensively copied all over the Union.
" Professor De Wolf was not merely a literary man, but became a
highly scientific man, well versed in ethics, mathematics and astronomy,
and the various branches of natural philosophy, but more especially in
chemistry, his favorite department, to which he devoted the best years of
his life. . . ."
«
Hon. William (129), sixth son of Capt. Mark Anthony, De Wolf,
148 had a son Henry. This Henry married Anna Elizabeth Marston, by
whom he had :
149 I. William Frederick, born April 21, 181 1.
150 2. Anna Elizabeth, born Februarys, 1815 ; who
Russell Middleton of Charleston, S. C.
" The first verse reads :
" Angel bands, in strains sweet sounding,
Anthems to the Saviour raise ;
Host of heaven, his throne surrounding,
Hymn the great Creator's praise."
married Nathaniel
" For farther particulars respecting tliis eminent professor, see Rhode Island Hist. Tracts. No. I2.
—The Med. School ... in Brown University. . . . By
1881, pp. 18-24.
152
Charles W. Parsons, M.D. Providence,