Note 80 — IX CONCLUSION
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John M. Mackie, in “Sparks’s American Biography.”
Samuel Eddy, Secretary of State of Rhode Island, circum 1820, says of Gorton: “From the first establishment of the government he was almost constantly in office, and during a long life there is no instance of record to my knowledge of any reproach or censure cast upon him, no complaint of him, although history furnishes abundance of evidence that there were no lack of enemies to his person, principles, or property. This can hardly be said of any other settler of the Colony of any standing.” Quoted in Judge Brayton’s “Defence of Samuel Gorton.”