10 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



A dinner at the Charleston Hotel, by invitation of Rev. 

 George Shepard, gave us pleasant interviews with him and 

 his lady, and a pleasing circle of friends, Judge Gilchrist 

 and lady, Bishop Gadsden, Rev. Mr. Hinckel and lady, and 

 my friend, Miss Elizabeth Jones, and a sister who had high 

 conversational powers. This hotel was the home of Judge 

 Hoar and his daughter, when a few weeks before they were 

 so inhospitably expelled from Charleston. 



Our friends, the Shepards, invited a large circle of their 

 friends, one hundred, as was said, to meet us at their 

 lodgings. Those whom we had lately met at dinner were 

 there, and many other persons of distinction. All were 

 very agreeable, and gave us a warm reception ; and we were 

 most favorably impressed by their kind and agreeable 

 manners 



Colonel Ion, a most respectable gentleman, was a graduate 

 in the class of 1803 in Yale College, which I instructed as 

 a tutor, having, according to the practice of that day, the 

 entire charge of them in all their studies. His conduct was 

 very manly, his attainments highly respectable, and his 

 deportment towards myself perfectly respectful and gentle- 

 manly ; so that a friendly feeling was mutually cherished. 

 Hearing that I was expected, he had arranged to meet me 

 with his carriage on my arrival in the boat ; but our coming 

 on Sabbath morning prevented the execution of his purpose 

 to take us to his house as his guests. At his house, on the 

 occasion of a dinner to which we were invited, we met a 

 most friendly reception. Colonel Ion being a bachelor, his 

 sister Mrs. Wrag and her daughter or daughters did the 

 honors of his house. They, with Colonel Ion, had been 

 hospitably entertained at our house in New Haven, so that 

 this meeting seemed as a reward of our previous friendly 

 relations. Colonel Ion had a command in the army during 

 the late war with England, and was long Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives of South Carolina, and was still 

 distinguished for his early traits of candor, impartiality, and 



