SLAFTER, Edmund Farwell, author, born in Norwich, Vermont, 30 May, 1816. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1840, studied at Andover theological seminary, and in 1844 was ordained a minister of the Protestant Episcopal church. The same year he became rector of St. Peter's church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remained till the autumn of 1846, when he was appointed rector of St. John's church, Jamaica Plain. Here he continued eight years, and then became assistant rector of St. Paul's church, Boston. In 1857 Mr. Slafter was appointed an agent of the American Bible society, which place he resigned in 1877, and he has since given his leisure time to historical studies. He is a member of many learned societies in America and Europe. He has published, among other works, "The Assassination Plot in New York in 1776 : a Letter of Dr. William Eustis, Surgeon in the Revolutionary Army and late Governor of Massachusetts, with Notes" (Boston, 1868) ; "Memorial of John Slafter, with Genealogical Account of his Descendants" (1868) ; "The Charter of Norwich, Vermont, and Names of the Original Proprietors: with Brief Historical Notes" (1869); "The Vermont Coinage," Vermont historical society collection (Montpelier, 1870); "Sir William Alexander and American Colonization," in the series of the Prince society (Boston, 1873); "The Copper Coinage of the Earl of Stirling, 1632" (1874); "Voyages of the Northmen to America," edited, with an introduction (1877); "Voyages of Samuel de Champlain," translated from the French by Charles Pomeroy Otis, with historical illustrations and a memoir (3 vols., 1878, 1880, 1882); and "History and Causes of the Incorrect Latitudes as recorded in the Journals of the Early Writers, Navigators, and Explorers relating to the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1535-1740" (1882).