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with the authorities at St. Augustine, the danger of 

 a piratical Spanish invasion might have induced all 

 the substantial citizens on the rivers to provide 

 themselves with these arms. The first page of 

 Mr. Gendron's will is the confession of faith of a 

 humble and grateful Christian ; and his attachment 

 to his church is exhibited by a moderate legacy to 

 the churches of Jamestown and Charleston, which, 

 he says, '' they shall continue to enjoy so long as 

 they are reformed as they are at present." 



This respectable emigrant has not obtained a 

 name in history, but the traditions of Craven County 

 still preserve it in connection with a little incident 

 which, in the hands of Sterne, might have served 

 as the groundwork of an immortal work. Business 

 having carried Mr. Gendron to Charleston, his 

 absence was so long and so unaccountably pro- 

 tracted that his friends supposed him to have been 

 lost. On Sunday, while assembled at their house 

 of worship in Jamestown, the preacher from his 

 pulpit saw approaching up the river the canoe of 

 his long-lost friend. Forgetting, in his joy, the 

 sermon which he had prepared, with the exclama- 

 tion, *' Voila, Mr. Gendron !" he announced his safe 

 arrival, and rushed out, followed by the delighted 

 congregation, to welcome him whom they had 

 mourned as dead. 



Mr. John Gendron, the son of this gentleman, is 

 mentioned by Capt. Palmer, in the Appendix to 



