From the earliest days of the American Revolution Faneuil Hall hiis been to Boston a household word, familiar to the lips of men, women and childi'en as the memorial of Huguenot munificence, rendered classical by historic associations that quicken the pulse of patriotism and call forth the spirit of song in commemoration of the ' cradle of liberty.' Thus the name of a Huguenot of New Rochelle has not only held a shining place in the annals of the colonial commonwealth, but lives in the nation's history as a source of inspiration, awakening memories that are an uplifting power.

"Although the name of this man, thus memorialized, has been daily re. peated in the first city of New England by four or five successive generations, yet his short and inspiring life-story had been permitted almost to fade away from memory until its late restoration to the popular range of home reading by the pen of Charles Smith, who has contributed a

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choice chapter to the memorial history of Boston. The uncle of Peter, the fiiunder aiul ilonor of the liall, was Andrew Fanciiil, wlm fled from France t > Holhind in lt>S.">, and tlionce, as tlie reconi shows, lind l)e('onie, in Ifi'.U, a tax-i)ayer and citizen of Boston. At tlie opening; of tlie eigliteonth century lie had taken nink as the leading merchant of the city in point of wealth, trusted by all as a man of honesty and honor. His death, in 1737, seemed indeed an nntimely event. The sense of loss was universal, expressed by the jjatherinK at his grave -- a procession of eleven hundred pei-sons, representatives of the whole people. His pro|»- erty was ' willed ' to his nephew Peter, who, at eijrhteen years of a*je, had left his native town, New KochcUc, and sojoxirmed for a short period in Rhode Island, wiiither he had accompanied his father, Benjamin.