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TRACY, Joseph, clergyman, born in Hartford, Vermont, 3 November, 1794; died in Beverly, Massachusetts, 24 March, 1874. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1814, studied divinity, and was pastor of the Congregational churches in West Thetford and West Fairlee, Vermont, from 1821 till 1829. He subsequently edited the " Chronicle" at Windsor, Vermont, for five years, and the Boston "Recorder" for one year. He then became secretary of the Massachusetts colonization society, and of the American colonization society for Massachusetts, which posts he held until his death. The University of Vermont gave him the degree of D. D. in 1859. He was associated with Professor Henry B. Smith for several years in the editorship of the " American Theological Review." He published "Three Last Things" (Boston, 1839)" " The Great Awakening, a History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield" (New York, 1842); " History of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (1842)" " Refutation of Charges against the Sandwich Island Missionaries" (Boston, 1844); and " A Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the American Colonization Society" (1867).--His brother, Ebenezer Carter, editor, born in Hartford, Vermont, 10 June, 1796; died in Windsor, Yr., 15 May, 1862, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1819, and at Andover theological seminary in 1822. He edited the "Vermont Chronicle" from 1822 till 1828, and again from 1834 till his death. He was also editorially connected with the New York "Journal of Commerce" and the " Boston Recorder." He published a " Life of Jeremiah Evarts" (Boston, 1845).--Another brother, Ira, missionary, born in Hartford, Vermont, 15 January, 1806; died in Bloomington, Wisconsin, 10 November, 1875, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1829, and at Andover theological seminary in 1832, was ordained a missionary in the same year, and held charges in China, Siam, and southern Hindostan from 1832 till 1841, but at the latter date he was compelled to return to this country, owing to the failure of his health, tie was subsequently a financial agent of the American board, and held various Congregational charges in Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. He contributed many articles to the " Bibliotheca Sacra." and is the author of "Duty to the Heathen" (Boston, 1859).
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