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The subject of this sketch was one who, despite an entire want of education, struggled successfully in the pursuit of wealth, until he was one of the most extensive land-owners, and by far the wealthiest man in the French grant.

He was born in 1765, and at the age of twenty-six, secreted himself on one of the American-bound vessels which brought the French emigrants from Havre de Grace. On their arrival at Alexandria he was sold to a hotel proprietor for one year, to pay his passage, at the end of which time he came to Gallipolis. He remained here until the distribution of lands at the French grant, when he accepted his portion about one mile below Haverhill, where he continued to reside, accumulating a large amount of property. He was a shrewd man of enterprise, and died August 8th, 1826, in the sixty-first year of his age.