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Gardiner embraced the cause of Great Britain, left Boston witli the 

 British army and went to Halifax. His property- was confiscated by 

 Government and sold at auction, but in consequence of a legal flaw 

 in the proceedings it was, at-the conclusion of peace, restored to his 

 heirs. Dr. Gardiner died August 8, 1786, aged 76 years. 



A daughter of Dr. Gardiner, Hannah, married Robert Hallowell, 

 who was born in Boston in July, 1739, and who died in Gardiner in 

 April, 1818. A memorial tablet under the corner of Christ Church, 

 in that city, says of him that he was "a man of firm integrity, dis- 

 tino"uished courtes}^ and strong affections." A son was born to 

 Hannah Hallowell at Bristol. England, during the absence of his 

 parents and grandparents to that country 10 February, 1782, and 

 was named Robert. His grandfather, Dr Gardiner, displeased at 

 the religious and political views (he was a Unitarian and a republi- 

 can) of his eldest son John, willed all his property to this grandson, 

 when he was only five years of age, on condition that he should 

 assume the name of Gardiner. This he did on becoming of age, in 

 1802, and a special act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, passed 

 March 11 of that year, enabled him to take the legal name of Robert 

 Hallowell Gardiner, he having just graduated at Harvard University 

 ranking second in a large class which contained many afterwards 

 very distinguished names. After graduating he spent two years 

 abroad, and then came to the Kennebec to assume the management 

 of his estate. He married, in 1804, Emma Jane Tudor of Boston, 

 daughter of the late Hon. William Tudor, oue of her brothers being 

 the late William Tudor, the first editor of the North American Re- 

 view, and the biographer of James Otis ; and another, the late 

 Frederic Tudor, who was the originator of the modern ice business 

 and whose love for beautifying nature is shown in the tens of thou- 

 sands of trees which he planted on the bleak coast of Massachusetts 

 along what is now the beautiful and popular Nahant shore. 



Mr Gardiner was a man of great energy of character, singularly 

 simple and unostentatious in manner of life, generous, kind-hearted 

 and just. He was thd first Mayor of Gardiner ; the President of its 

 savings bank from its organization to his decease ; for many years 

 an overseer and for nineteen years a Trustee of Bowdoin College ; 

 for a long time President of the Kennebec Bible Society ; an influen- 

 tial member of the Board of Visitors of the State Hospital for the 

 Insane, and for eleven years President of the Maine Historical 

 Society of which he was one of the original members. He died 22 



