20 SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 



fully to be realized. The crop of 1799 or 1800 

 extricated him from debt. About twenty-two years 

 after, Capt. Gaillard divided his lands and negroes 

 among eight children, and retired in a green old 

 age to enjoy as much of the world's happiness as is 

 the lot of man, and lived ten years after. 



I never knew a better, a neater, or a more suc- 

 cessful planter than Capt. Gaillard. There was a 

 completeness and finish, a compactness and uni- 

 formity about every thing, that was pleasant to the 

 eye. In a ride one day to "■ Lifeland," my grand- 

 father, Peter Sinkler, became the subject of con- 

 versation, and the captain thus expressed himself 

 about him as a planter. *' If you will make him, 

 Mr. Sinkler, the standard of a planter, I have never 

 known any other." I adopt and apply this opinion 

 to him upon the maturest consideration. There 

 was a generosity that belonged to him that few 

 possessed, and the knowledge of which would be 

 gratifying to his descendants. When a rapid ac- 

 cumulation of funds in his factor's hands took 

 place, his nephew and factor, Theodore Gaillard, 

 Jr., borrowed of him a large sum of money, and 

 mortgaged for its safety the plantation now owned 

 by Thos. Ashby Esq., and a number of negroes. 

 After the bankruptcy of Mr. Gaillard, the mort- 

 gage foreclosed, the property sold for very little to 

 Captain Gaillard, owing to a great blunder of one 

 of the banks, which held a younger mortgage. 



