[RAYMOND] A RADICAL AND A LOYALIST 101 



A few words must be added with regard to the character of Elias 

 Hardy in private Hfe. Here we may quote from the obituary notice 

 printed by Christopher Sower in the Royal Gazette of January 1, 1799: 



"Elias Hardy formed but few friendships, but in these he was always sincere, 

 and the brilliancy of his wit and good humour made him the life of every circle of 

 which he formed a part. He has left a wife and four children to lament the loss of an 

 affectionate husband and indulgent parent." 



The death of Elias Hardy took place at his residence on Christmas 

 day, 1798, in the 54th year of his age, "after a long illness which he 

 bore with the greatest fortitude." Three days later, his mortal form 

 was borne to its last resting place in the old burial ground attended 

 by a large concourse of leading citizens. 



Hardy's wife, Emma, was the daughter of Peter Huggeford, 

 M.D., surgeon of the Loyal American Regiment. Dr. Huggeford was 

 living in New York in 1800, and his daughter, Mrs. Hardy, went there 

 to live with her children after the death of her husband. 



But while friends and kindred returned to the United States, all 

 that was mortal of Elias Hardy remains with us, and though the 

 exact spot where he was laid at rest is not known, this we know, that 

 the City of the Loyalists retains within her bounds all that could die 

 of one of her distinguished founders, that his ashes lie beneath the 

 shadow of the meteor flag that waves aloft above the neighboring 

 hall of justice, and that his memory is preserved by the memorial 

 tablet lately placed in the Court, of which he was in his day and gener- 

 ation a conspicuous ornament. The Hardy memorial tablet, a very 

 beautiful one, was unveiled in the auditorium of the Court House 

 with befitting ceremony by His Honour Chief Justice H. A. McKeown 

 on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 24th, 1918, in the presence of 

 the members of the New Brunswick Historical Society and many of 

 the leading citizens of Saint John. 



The writer of this paper deems it an honour to have gathered the 

 fragments which tell, however imperfectly, the life story of the son 

 of the non-conformist minister of Farnham, and to lay this humble 

 chaplet on his nameless grave. 



Toronto, May 18th, 1919. 



