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TYLER, Royall, jurist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 18 July, 1757; died in Brattleborough, Vermont, 16 August, 1826. He studied law in the office of John Adams and was for a short time aide to General Benjamin Lincoln, in which station he served in the Shays rebellion in 1786. In 1790 he settled as a lawyer in Guilford, Vermont. In 1794 he was made a judge of the supreme court, and in 1800 he became chief justice. Judge Tyler published "Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont " (2 vols., 1809) He was also a successful dramatist and the author of "The Contrast," the first American play ever acted on a regular stage by an established company of comedians. In this comedy the Yankee dialect and story-telling, now very familiar, were first employed. It was produced in New York in 1786 He also wrote "May-Day, or New York in an Uproar" (1787);" The Georgia Spec. or Land in the Moon" (1797); and "The Algerine Captive," a fictitious memoir (2 vols., 1799). Judge Tyler contributed to the "Farmer's Weekly Museum," published at Walpole, New Hampshire, a melange of light verse and social and political squibs purporting to come "from the shop of Messrs. Colon and Spondee." He contributed to the "Portfolio An Author's Evenings," a series of papers that were subsequently collected in a volume and entitled " The Spirit of the Farmer's Museum and Lay Preacher's Gazette." He also wrote for the " New England Galaxy " and other journals, besides composing a variety of songs, odes, and prologues.--His son, Edward Royall, clergyman, born in Guilford, Vermont, in 1800; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 28 September, 1848, was graduated at Yale in 1825 and at the divinity-school in 1828. He was pastor of the South church in Middletown, Connecticut, from 1827 till 1832, and of the Congregational church in Cole-brook, Connecticut, in 1833-'6. In 1836-'7 he was agent of the American anti-slavery society. From 1838 till 1842 he was editor of the "Connecticut Observer," and he was the founder, editor, and proprietor of the " New Englander."
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