This unusual prænomen, _Gillam_, I, at first, supposed to be a corruption of _Guillaume_. But there was a merchant, of that day, in Boston, bearing the name of _Gillam Phillips_. In the Registry of Deeds, for Suffolk, lib. 43, fol. 13, there is recorded a deed, from "_Wentworth Paxton, and Faith, his wife, formerly Faith Gillam_," in which, reference is made to Faith's father, _Benjamin Gillam_. Mr. Gillam Phillips is thus named, in the will of his wife's uncle, Andrew Faneuil, to which I shall have occasion to refer. Jan 22, 1738, Peter, in a letter to Lane & Smethurst, of London, speaks of his brother-in-law, _Mr. Gillam Phillips_. This gentleman was the elder brother of _Mr. Henry Phillips_, who was indicted, for killing Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, in a duel, fought with swords, and without seconds, on Boston Common, upon the evening of July 3, 1728. This extremely interesting affair cannot be introduced, as an episode here, on account of the space it must necessarily occupy. The original documents, relating to this encounter, which terminated in the immediate death of Mr. Woodbridge, have fallen into my possession; and, as Peter Faneuil personally assisted, in the escape of the survivor, who found a city of refuge, in Rochelle, and a friend and protector, in Peter's uncle, _Jean Faneuil_; it seems, in some degree, related to the history of Peter and his kinsfolk. I may, possibly, refer to it hereafter. In 1685, the period of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, there were living, in or near Rochelle, in France, three brothers and two sisters of the Faneuil family. One of these, _Benjamin_, became the father of _our_ Peter Faneuil--the others, his uncles and aunts, when the persecution commenced, so ably and touchingly described, by James Saurin, fled for safety to foreign lands. Andrew, the elder brother, escaped into Holland, and took up his abode in Amsterdam; where he married that preëminently beautiful lady, whose portrait is now in the possession of Col. Benjamin Hunt, whose mother was Jane Bethune, a daughter of Mary Faneuil, the neice of Peter. _Andrew Faneuil_, before many years, came to this country--precisely when, I cannot say. That he was here, as early as 1709, is evident, from the proposals of Oliver Noyes and others, to build a wharf from the bottom of King Street, to low-water mark, "of the width of King Street, between Mr. East Apthorp's and Mr. Andrew Faneuil's." These proposals are dated Feb. 20, 1709, and are inserted in Dr. Snow's History of Boston, p. 209.