Botsford, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in April, 1763, in New Haven, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 1795; was a judge of admiralty in New Brunswick in 1802-7; was elected to the assembly in 1812, and for every succeeding term until 1823, holding the office of speaker from 1817 to 1823; and in the latter year became judge of the supreme court. He died May 8, 1864, in Sackville, N. B.
BOTTA, MRS. ANNE CHARLOTTE [LYNCH], author, was born in 1820, in Bennington, Vt. She was a well-known New York writer whose weekly receptions were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to a salon. She was the author of Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary of a Recluse; and Poems. She died March 23, 1891, in New York city.