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Howell, Richard

soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1753 in Newark, Del. In 1775 he was appointed captain of the second New Jersey regiment. He distinguished himself at Quebec; was promoted to major in 1776, and commanded his regiment until 1779. He was governor from 1794 to 1801. He died April 28, 1802, in Trenton, N. J. was HOWELL, ROBERT BOYTE CRAW- FORD, clergyman, author, born March 10, 1801, in Wayne county, N. C.

He was a once noted baptist clergyman of Nashville; and the author of Terms of Sacramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant; and Early Baptists of Virginia. He died April 5, 1868, in Nashville, Tenn.

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