a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Farmington Falls, Me., Feb. 4. 1811. He was converted in early life, and became a local preacher when about seventeen; and in 1848 entered. the Providence Conference, in which he did valiantservice until failing health obliged his superannuationo in 1856. He died Jan. 26, 1858. Mr. Blake was ardentin friendship, social in disposition, and symmetrical in his Christian character. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1858, p. 38.