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included a love of cards, dice, racing, liquor and
general carousing. His passions included also, love of
family, pity of the sick, and loyalty to his code of honor.
Accumulations were also part of who he was:
accumulations of property, of wealth, of friends. His
manor house was filled with his offspring and was
often referred to as "Bedlam Neck." Free-spirited and
righteous, proud and diligent—it was in the ilk of
Thomas Gerard that the American character came to
be.