Mr. Webster made allusion to the honored name of Taylor, then of Sanbornton.  Both father, and son were brave officers of Revolutionary stock.  The father, Captain Chase Taylor, commanded a company composed chiefly of Sanbornton and Meredith men, at the battle of Bennington, on the sixteenth of August, 1777, and was there severely wounded—­his left leg being broken, which disabled him for life.  He died in 1805.  In 1786 he received a small pension from the State.  His surgeon, Josiah Chase of Canterbury, and his Colonel, Stickney of Concord, each furnishing their certificates in his behalf.  Early in the history of the Revolutionary war the son, Nathan Taylor, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Corps of Rangers, commanded by Colonel Whitcomb.  Lieutenant Taylor had the command of a small detachment of fourteen men.  On the sixteenth day of June, 1777, being stationed on the western bank of Lake Champlain, at a place which has ever since been called Taylor’s Creek, he was surprised by a superior force of Indians.  Taylor bravely resisted this attack, and was successful in driving the enemy off, though at the expense of a severe wound in his right shoulder.  Three others of his band were also wounded.  Both father and son were confined at home in the same house several months before recovery from their wounds.  Lieutenant Taylor returned to active service in the army.  He afterwards received the military title of Major, and occupied many civil offices after the war in his own town, as well as in behalf of the State.  He was member of the House of Representatives, also of the Senate and Council, for a number of years.  He died in March, A.D. 1840, aged 85, much lamented.

Then there was John Taylor of Revolutionary fame.  He and many of his descendants have occupied high and enviable stations in Sanbornton, and their biography and good deeds have been ably commemorated by the historian, Rev. M.T.  Runnels.  In adhering to the Taylor families Mr. Webster obeyed the injunction of Solomon who said, “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend forsake not.”  Mr. Webster’s letter furnishes strong evidence, that he did not forsake “his own friend,” Parker Noyes.  The friendship between these men commenced when Mr. Noyes entered the Law office of Thomas W. Thompson as early as 1798, and continued intimate, cordial, unabated, “fast” during their lives.  The earthly existence of both terminated in the same year, Mr. Noyes having deceased August, 19, 1852, and Mr. Webster on the twenty-fourth of the succeeding October.

The dwelling houses of both in Franklin were within the distance of twenty rods; their intercourse was frequent during the last fifty-four years of their lives.

During the time Mr. Webster practiced law in New Hampshire they often met at the same bar, and measured intellectual lances in various legal contests.  These meetings were most frequent when Mr. Webster first settled in Boscawen in 1805, and for the next two years, before his removal to Portsmouth.