History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . name, then that of the friend whom heconsidered the noblest of earths lieroes, and then that namewhich enrolled under its banner those friends who were thedearest, and nearer to him because of the trials and strugglesthrough which they had together. While anxiety maybe felt for a child weighted with such a name, we can sympathize with the feelings that prompted it, and rejoice thar inthis case it was carried without stain or l^lemish through
History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . name, then that of the friend whom heconsidered the noblest of earths lieroes, and then that namewhich enrolled under its banner those friends who were thedearest, and nearer to him because of the trials and strugglesthrough which they had together. While anxiety maybe felt for a child weighted with such a name, we can sympathize with the feelings that prompted it, and rejoice thar inthis case it was carried without stain or l^lemish through longyears of an honored life as an eminent merchant of New York,and the founder of American missions to China. The name, asindicated above, was but a sign of love and loyalty, the dis-tinctive traits of the old Scotch family, and which led its histo-rian to write: but even the sternest foe of the OlyphantT)olitics (in Scotland) will not grudge, I hope, some meed ofpraise to that unflinching steadfastness whicb was ever readyto give life and lands, home and health, in behalf of a race ofdoomed kings. The subject of this sketch was true and. Cp ^ ao-iJ CyZyA ^a^-^^ IIISTOKY OF COUNTY. 107 steadfast to what he believed to be the best for his nativeland, and then for the land of his adoption. There may be adoubt, perhaps, which was the deepest feeling of his heart,love of freedom, or hatred of the Geor<?es. Perhaps the to him, but the Jacobite tradition was with him,wonder at it as we may, an abiding one. It seems proper, inclosing this sketch, to state that Doctor Olyphant apparentlythought himself the proper heir to the title of Lord Olyphant,after the death of his uncle in 1770—the last who bore the title—and he had many papers in his that seemed to vin-dicate his belief. In his will, Lord Olyphant bequeathed tohim the family plate, and then, providing that the residue ofhis estate should be invested for Lady Olyphant during herlife,
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