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afterward returned to Virginia, where he enjoyed esteem and popularity. In the great rebellion of IGTG he bore a prominent part. When Berkeley, after being frightened into issuing a commission to Bacon to fight the Indians, proclaimed the general and his followers rebels, and endeavored to raise a force to surprise thein, Drummond brought the news to the camp. When the gov- ernor fled before Bacon's returning forces he pro- posed that Berkeley should be deposed, asserting that he could find precedents in the ancient rec- ords of Virginia. The leading planters, meeting at INIiddle Plantation, now Williamsburg, agreed to support Bacon against the governor. When Sir William Berkeley returned with a band of hirelings, collected at Accomack, and occupied Jamestown, Drummond prepared for defence, 'and sent for Bacon, who had returned from an expe- dition against the Indians, and had disbanded his men. After the recapture of Jamestown he coun- selled the burning of the capital, removed the records to a place of safety, and with his own hand applied the torch to his dwelling, one of the best houses in the town. After the death of Bacon the insurgents were conquered through the ability of Robert Beverley, and Berkeley wreaked ills vengeance by having all the principal offenders summarily executed. "I am more glad to see you," he said when Drummond was brought into his presence, " than any man in Virginia ; you shall 1)6 hanged in half an hour." Drummond avowed l)efore the court-martial that condemned him the |)art that he had taken in the rebellion. — Ilis wife, Sarah, was as zealous a patriot as himself, and was denounced as a wicked and notorious rebel. " The child that is unborn," she declared, " shall have cause to rejoice for the good that will come by the rising of the country." After the execution of her husband she was driven from her home with her children, and compelled to depend on the charitv of the planters.

DRUMMOND, William, British soldier, b. in Keltie. Perthshire, Scotland ; killed at Fort Erie, Canada, 15 Aug., 1814. He entered the army at an early age, and at St. Vincent, when a lieutenant in the 2d West India regiment, received tlie highest testimonial from Lieut.-Gen. Hunter, under whom he served. At the attack on Sackett's Harbor, in the war with the United States, he was wounded, and so distinguished himself that he was mentioned in the public despatches. He was lieutenant- colonel of the 104th regiment, and quartermaster- general in Canada at the time of his death. He perished, according to some accounts, in the explo- sion of the mine at Fort Erie (see Drujimond, Sir Gordon) ; but other authorities say that Drum- mond ordered his men to " give the Yankees no quarter," and that he was killed by the side of Lieut. Macdonough, who had asked him for quarter, but was shot by him.

DRYSDALE, Alexander Irvin, clergyman, b. in Savannah, Ga., in 1841 ; d. in Waukesha, Wis., 30 Aug., 1866. He entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry in early manhood, and after a few years' service in his native city received a call from Mobile, where he remained seven years. In 1880 he returned to New Orleans as rector of Christ church. A few days before his death he was elected to the vacant bishopric at Easton, Md., but it was not supposed by his friends that he would have accepted, as he was greatly interested in the growth of his own parish. His congregation was much attached to him, and built him one of the finest church edifices in the city. Dr. Drysdale was a man of extensive learning, but was noted rather for the zeal with which he engaged in his pastoral work than for his eloquence. lie died in Wisconsin, where he had gone for his health.

DRYSDALE, Thomas Murray, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 81 Aug., 1831. After speed- ing some time in a drug-store, in order to become familiar with pharmacy, he studied medicine hi the Pennsylvania medical college, and under the instruction of Dr. Washington L. Atlee, whom he assisted in the chemical laboratory of the college, and whose daughter he married in 1857. He was graduated M. D. in 1853. He lectured on chemis- try in the Wagner science institute in 1855, but re- signed to devote himself to his practice in surgery and gynecology. In 1862 he delivei'ed a course of lectures on the microscope in the Franklin insti- tute. He also made valuable microscopical ob- servations, and discovered and described the ova- rian cell which exists in ovarian tumors. He was one of the first to perform ovariotomy in Phila- delphia. He was a delegate to the International medical congress in 1870, and one of the founders of the American gynecological society. He has published papers on rupture of the common duct of the liver, and the granular cell in ovarian fluid, " Dropsical Fluids of the Abdomen," being chap, xxiv of W. L. Atlee's work on " Diagnosis of Ova- rian Tumors" (Philadelphia, 1873), and addresses on tracheotomy, and the use of chlorate of potassa in diphtheria and pseudo-membranous croup.

DUANE, James, jurist, b. in New York city 6 Feb., 1733 ; d. in Duanesburg, N. Y., 1 Feb., 1797. He inherited a tract of land at Duanesburg, on which he established a settlement in 1765. He became a lawyer, married in 1759 a daughter of Col. Robert Livingston, and attained eminence in his profession in New York. He was the leading advocate of the rights of New York to the New Hampshire grants, and drew up a memorial to the assembly in 1773 in support of the claim of his state to an eastern boundary on the Connecticut

river. He was one

of the principal New York grantees of territory in Vermont, and when Ethan Allen. Seth Warner, and Remember Baker drove out the New York officials, he headed the applicants who induced the legislature to declare those men traitors and outlaws. He was one of the conservative candidates proposed for congress by the committee of fifty-one in 1774, and was elected a delegate to the 1st Continental congress. In that body he proposed the recognition of the British acts of navigation, and encountered violent opposition, though the resolution of John Adams thatwas adopted was nearly identical with his own. He seconded Galloway's proposal for a union of the colonies under a grand council, subordinate to parliament, and a president, nominated by the king, and with Galloway entered a protest against the resolution of 8 Oct., 1774, in favor of supporting Massachusetts in her opposition to the acts of parliament. He opposed the idea that no acts of parliament could bind the congress, and moved to strike the Quebec act out of the list of grievances.