WATERMAN, Thomas Glasby, lawyer, born in New York city, 23 January, 1788 ; died in Binghamton, New York, 7 January, 1862. At an early age he removed with his parents to Salisbury, Connecticut, where his father, David, established extensive iron-works. The son was graduated at Yale in 1806 in the class with James Fenimore Cooper, studied in the Litchfield law-school, and afterward with Samuel Sherwood in Delhi, New York, and after admission to the bar in 1809 remained with the latter until 1812, when he went to Owego, New York, for a few months, but settled finally in Binghamton, New York, where he practised until about 1830. He served in the lower house of the legislature in 1826, and from 1827 till 1831 in the state senate, where he was one of a committee that made a thorough revision of the statutes of the state. By appointment of the governor he discharged the duties of judge of the court of common pleas for the state. He prepared and published "The Justice's Manual, or a Summary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in New York State" (Albany, 1828).--His son, Thomas Whitney, lawyer, born in Binghamton, New York, 28 June, 1821, entered Yale in 1838, but was not graduated. He travelled in Europe in 1842-'4, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1848. Until 1870 he practised in New York city, and he then removed to Binghamton. He has edited many law-books, including American editions of J. H. Dart's "Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate," with notes (New York, 1851); J. F. Archbold's "New System of Criminal Procedure" (3 vols., New York, 1852); Robert Henley Eden's " Treatise on the Law of Injunctions" (2 vols., New York, 1852) ; vols. viii, and ix. of Alonzo C. Paige's "Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York" (1852); Murray Hoffman's "Chancery Reports" (1853) ; George Caines's " New York Reports" (3d ed., 3 vols., 1854); vol. ii. of Elijah Paine's " Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Circuit, 1816-'26" (1856); the 4th American edition of William Pa-ley's " Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent Chiefly in Reference to Mercantile Translations " (1856); and vols xviii., xix., and xx. of John L. Wendell's " Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Judicature and in the Court for Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors of the State of New York, 1828-'41" (1857). He is the author of a " Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, to which are added Outlines of the Powers and Duties of Country and Town Officers in the State of New York" (New York, 1849); the 3d edition of the "American Chancery Digest," with notes and a copious index (3 vols., 1851) ; " Treatise on the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace for the States of Wisconsin and Iowa: containing Practical Forms" (1853); "Treatise on the Principles of Law and Equity which govern Courts in the granting of New Trials in Cases Civil and Criminal" (2 vols., 1855); " Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Superior Court and of the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut from the Organization of said Courts to the Present Time" (1858) ; and a "Treatise on the Law of Set-Off, Recoupment, and Counter-Claim" (1869).