Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-08-05
A SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION.

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The Washington National MteHigence'
lately contained the following article in
relation to Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
the only survivor in 1926 of the men
who signed the Declaration of American
Independence:
8" In the year 1926, after all save one
of the band of patriots whose signatures
are horne on the Declaration of Inde-
pendence had descended to the tomb,
and the venerable Carroll alone re-
manned among the living. the govern
ment of the city of New York deputed a
committee to wait on the illustrious sur
vyor and obtain from him, for deposit
in the public hall of the city, copy of
the Declaration of 1776, sraced and au-
t6enticated anew with his sign manual.
The aged patriot yielded to the request
and affixed, with his own hand, to a
copy of that instrument, the grateful,
solemn and pious suppleme ented declar-
alton which follows:
"Grateful to Almighty God for the
blessings which, through Jesus Christ
our Lord, he has conferred on my be-
loved country in her emancipation, and
on myself in permitting me, under cir
cumstances of mercy, to live to the age
of eighty nine years, and to survive the
fiftieth year of American Independence,
and certify by my present signature my
appreciation of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence adopted by Congress on the
Fourth of July, 1776, which 1 originally
subscribed on the second day of August
of the same year, and of which lam now
the last surviving signer-I do hereby
recommend to the present and future
generations the principles of that i'm
portant document as the best earthly
Inheritance their ancestors could be-
queath to them, and pray that the civil
and religious liberties they have secured
to my country may be perpetuated to
remotest posterity and extended to the
whole family of men.
CHARLES CARROLL of Carrollton.
Aug. 2, 1926.
An H1sToRIc Clock FOR HAMILTON
CoLLEGE.-John Eliot of Clinton has
presented to the Memorial Hall of Ham
ilton College an historical clock, which
Charley Lamb might have characterized
as " ratherish old" 1t has timed at least
245 years, and is still a good timekeeper.
It was brought from England by Rev.
John Eliot, /" the apostle to the Indians,
who landed in Boston from the ship
Mary Lyon, Nov. 3, 1881" 1t was
handed down as family inheritance
from him to his son, Joseph Eliot, who
was graduated from Harvard College in
1868; from Joseph to his son Jared Eliot;
from Jared to his son John Eliot; from
John to his son Edward Eliot; from
Edwsrtl to his son John E. Eliot of
Clinton, the sixth in descent from "the
apostle to the Indians" This old clock
faithfully marked off the hours, months
and years which the missionery Eliot
devoted to the translation of the Bible
into the Indian language. Before this
translation could be made, or even be-
gun, it was necessary to reduce the rude
oral dialect of the natives to the form of
written language. The work was
completed in 1868, and published at
Cambridge, Mass. Only sixty copies
of this work are now in existence. The
last one that was sold brought 81 ,156.
The only living man that can read it is
J. Hammond Trumbull of Hartford,
Conn.-Uica Herald