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1 NAME Peter /Chardon/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Peter Chardon was the son of an eminent of Boston merchant, belonging to one of the
2 CONC French protestant families which had taken refuge in America after the revocation
2 CONC of the Edict of Nantes. The family residence was on Bowdin Sq., on the spot where
2 CONC the Baptist Church now stands (1937) at the corner of Chardon St.
1 DEAT
2 DATE Oct 1766
2 PLAC Mass., USA
2 NOTE In a number of the 'Massachusetts Gazette' for Jan 1767, may be found the following
3 CONC obituary notice from 'The Gazette' of Dominica, W.I. Charlottetown, Oct 1766. "Last night
3 CONC about 11 o'clock died here, Peter Chardon, Esq., barrister-at-law. It is hard to say
3 CONC whether a thorough knowledge of his profession or the unblemished integrity and honour
3 CONC with which he acted was the greatest. In him were joined the finished scholar and the
3 CONC complete gentleman, an he is not only universally lamented as such, but as a real lose
3 CONC to the colony." (Ms. of Mr. W.G.Brooks, New England Historical & Genealogical Register,
3 CONC Vol 8. p 258.)
1 FAMS @FB1118@
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