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concluded to let them go. John Loring (or Lola as it used to be called) and Louis Toma were of the party.

When more than eighty years of age, the old Governor killed a moose on [Sunkhagi [?].

Late in life he invariably wore a long skirted black frock coat with a red silk handkerchief knotted about his throat. He never wore a shirt. Uncle [Jeremiah Pearson] Hardy has a painting of him but it makes him look too haggard and thin. (This is now in the Tarratine Club in Bangor) It was painted in 1830 (?)

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Some years before his death having told my grandfather that he was 90 years old, a woman interrupted him saying he was not so old. In a very scornful tone, utterly disregarding the woman, he addressed himself to my grandfather: "That ooman, he just four year's older my oldest daughter. Where he been that time me born? how he know?"