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Identifier: journalofamerica10amer (find matches)
Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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and acted so loyally in the RevolutionaryWar. In the Convention of North Carolina in 1835 he deliveredthe noblest defence made by a layman in the cause of Catho-licity. It was a masterpiece of Christian oratory which thecynical or bigot could not circumvent. William Gaston was a native of Newbern which is located atthe confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers in the county ofCraven, North Carolina. His father, Dr. Alexander Gaston,was a native of Ireland and one of the most ardent opponentsof British rule in the land of his adoption. He was killed byTories on August 20th, 1781, when his son was about three yearsof age. His mother was a lady of rare qualities, unswerving piety andall the accomplishments of a gentlewoman. Judge Gaston wasoften heard to declare that whatever distinction he had attainedin life was owing to her pious counsel and conduct. She impartedto him his early education and instructed him in the tenets ofCatholic truth. At that period and for a generation after there
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BUST OF HON. WILLIAM GASTON. AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 255 was no Catholic priest in North Carolina. She realized the wordsof the poetess, Mrs. Sigourney, to mothers in general. Warns them to wake at early dawn and sowGood seed before the world doth sow its tares. William Gaston left home in the fall of 1791 for the new Catho-lic college at Georgetown of which he was the first pupil. Aftera residence there of two years he was compelled to return to thebracing climate of his native home on account of ill health. Hewent to Princeton in 1794 and graduated there at eighteen yearsof age with the first honours of that renowned college in 1796.On the eve of his graduation he went to Philadelphia to receivethe Sacraments of the church. He returned to Newbern, wherehe studied law with his co-religionist, Francois Xavier Martin,who subsequently was the author of a History of North Caro-lina and later Judge in Louisiana. In 1798, before he attainedmanhood, Mr. Gaston was admitted to the

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