Speaking, in 1828, of the First Church in Salem, he
says that he had spent his boyhood days there. Speak-
ing of the sea he says : "Many of the hours of my boy-
hood were nurtured in its chill and healthful waters." *

One of the memorable events of his boyhood, which
was to have a determining influence on his later course
of life, was the departure of the emigrants, from Essex
and Middlesex Counties, for "Marietta on the Ohio."
Among the forty-seven men who made up this com-
pany was an uncle of Timothy, Hezekiah Flint.*
Writing thirty years later of this early experience
he says of the second emigrant party that he remem-
bered the black canvas covering of the wagon:
"the white and large lettering in capitals To Marietta
on the Ohio.^^ He remembered the food, which even
then, the thought of such a distant expedition, fur-
nished to his imagination. Some twenty emigrants

• fVestem Monthly RevieWy vol. i, 317, 372.
^ Hezekiah Flint moved to Cincinnati from Marietta some time before the
year of his death, 18x1. His son of the same name continued to live in that
city and was an honored citizen when Tinuythy made his home there. See
also Julia P. Cutler's Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler ^ 203, note.
26 TIMOTHY FLINT

accompanied this wagon. The Reverend Doctor
Manasseh Cutler he thinks, had the direction of this
band of emigrants. He tells us that the good Doctor
Cutler left an enemy behind in the person of the late
learned and eccentric Doctor Bently of Salem, Mass-
achusetts. Doctor Bently was a contributor to a local
paper and took vengeance upon Doctor Cutler by
writing doggerel verses about him and his enterprise.
