THE subject of the following Memoir was born at South Petherton, a populous village in Somersetshire, Anno Domini 1756. His parents were John, and Mary Toller, whose maiden name was Northcote. His father was an attorney of eminence, and two of his sons were educated for that profession. Of the early years of Thomas, the subject of the following narrative, I have little information, further than that both his parents were eminently pious, and that he always considered himself indebted, under God, for his first religious