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| | John Mellen |
 | | He had some ability as a writer of verse, and a volume of his poems was published.--Another son, Prentiss, jurist, born in Sterling, Massachusetts, 11 October, 1764; died in Portland, Maine, 31 December, 1840, was graduated at Harvard in 1784, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1786. |
 | | He began practice at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, removed in 1792 to Biddeford, and in 1806 to Portland, Massachusetts (afterward Maine), and was a member of the executive council of Massachusetts in 1806-'9 and 1817. |
 | | His judicial decisions are published in the first eleven volumes of the "Maine Reports." --Prentiss's son, Grenville, poet, born in Biddeford, Maine, 19 June, 1799; died in New York, 5 September, 1841, was graduated at Harvard in 1818, studied law at Portland, and removed in 1823 to North Yarmouth, where he practised till 1828. |
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