Daniel Pierce Thompson, an American novelist, born in Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 1, 1795, died in Montpelier, Vt., June 6, 1868. He graduated at Middlebury college in 1820, was private tutor for several years, and was. admitted to the bar in Virginia. He practised law in Montpelier, Vt., and held the offices of register of probate, clerk of the legislature, compiler of the statutes, judge of probate, clerk of the county and of the supreme court, and secretary of state. He published "May Martin, or the Money Diggers " (1835, many times reprinted); "Adventures of Timothy Peacock" (1835); "The Green Mountain Boys " (Montpelier, 1840); "Locke Amsden," a graphic picture of the New England district school as it was (Boston, 1847); "Lucy Hosmer" (1848); " The Rangers, or the Tory's Daughter " (1850); "Gant Gurley, or the Trappers of Lake Umbagog" (1857); "The Doomed Chief" (1860); and "History of the Town of Montpelier, Vermont" (1860). From 1849 to 1856 he edited the " Green Mountain Freeman " newspaper.