He did not fancy very much the strife and noise of that turbulent assembly.

So he gladly accepted an appointment to the office of Judge of Probate of Middlesex County which was absolutely suited to him.

He administered that important office to the entire satisfaction of the people until his death.

I think George Brooks's smile would be enough to console any widow in an ordinary affliction.
William Barrett Washburn, afterward Governor and Senator, was Chairman of the Committee on Claims.
He is one of the best recent examples of a character whose external manifestations change somewhat with changing manners and fashions, but the substance of whose quality abides and I believe will abide through many succeeding generations.
He was a New England Puritan.

He brought to the service of the people a purity of heart, a perfect integrity, an austerity of virtue which not so much rendered him superior to all temptation as made it impossible to conceive that any of the objects of personal desire which lead public men astray could ever to him even be a temptation.
There were few stronger or clearer intellects in the public service.