THE

PRESENTATION 01- THE PORTRAITS

> > O f

GENERAL WILLIAM WHIPPLE 1

SKiNKR OK TIIK DKCLARATrON Oi’ INDEPENDENCE.

.\xn of DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT,

ADMIRAL. UNITED STATES NAVY.

N o v e m b e r 2 0 t h , 1 8 9 i ,

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STORER POST, No. i. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,

Department of New Hampshire,

T O T T I K ■

CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H.,

FOR TUE

WHIPPLE AND FARRAGUT SCHOOLS

PORTSMOUTII. N. n. 1

Prepared for publication by

JOSEPH Foster,

Secretary Entertainment Committee, Storer Poat. AMERICA.

REV. S. K. SMITH.

My country!j’tl» of thee, Sweet land of liberty, or thee Ising; Land where uiy'fathera died, Land'of the Pilgrim’s pride. F r o m e v e r y m o u n t a i n s i d e Let freedom ring.

My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, T h y n a m e I l o v e ! I l o v e t h y r o c k s a n d r i l l s , T h y w o o d s a n d t e m p l e d h i l l s ; My heart wlth'i-apture^tlirllls Like that above.

Let muslc'swell the breeze -And ring from all the trees. Sweet Freedom’s song; Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake, L e t r o c k s t h e i r s i l e n c e b r e a k — The sound prolong.

M y f a t h e r ’ s G o d ! t o T h e e , A u t h o r o f l i b e r t y ! To Thee we sing. Long niay;our'land be bright W i t h f r e e d o m ’ s h o l y l i g h t ; Protect us by;Thy;might, G r e a t G o d ! O u r K i n g ! AL<‘.'4s«>ii in I’atriotisiii.

Tlie formal presentation to the city by Storer Post, G. A. U., at Music Hall last evening, of tlie portraits of Gen. William Whipple ami Admiral David G. Farragut, was an impressive occasion, and an in¬ structive lesson in patriotism, which while Interesting to all present, of what¬ ever age, can hardly fail to stimulate love of country and elevate the ideal standard of honor in the minds of young people who attended tlie ceremonies. The re¬ cital, more than acentury after (ieocral Wliipple’s death, of his eminent services as statesman, soldier and jurist duri'ig the stormy years of the nation’s Infancy ; the outline Irstory of what Admiral Far¬ ragut, the greatest naval genius of mod¬ ern times, achieved for the nation during the gloomy period of the war of scccs- slon; these stories of departed I’.eroes and patriots related by men themselves liav- ing record of most honorable service, and listened to reverently by athrong of others of similar record, whose deeds are part of the nation’s liistory, and by many who have been worthily honored by tlicir i fellow citizens in civil position, must tend « to the elevation of youtliful amhi ion, and the healthy growth of patriotic sentiment in’the young. The ctfect may not be immediately apparent, but it will be permanent, and increase with years as memory recalls the event to the maturcr mind, One such I incident a.s the presentation ceremony of last evening may do much to point out the path of lionor and true gory to youth .whose ambitious ideas have been per¬ verted by tlie trashy literature of tiled ay. 'I'oo many such lessons cannot be given. (Kilitoriiil, N o v c m l i c r , I S S l l . ) WOTDDTTI nun nilDDIinnV lnon. and Alderman Charles P. Berry. flfllriLlj aJiU rAQllA.(j 1, ably filled the position of chairman of the meeting, and to his keen tact and fore¬ sight was due the fact that there was a happy avoidance of any tedious delays in TMr Portraits Presented to the general exercises. Among those seated with him on the stage were the city the Gttj b; Storer Post. government, board of Instrnctlon, officers of Storer Post, and ei-mayors of Ports¬ mouth. Two sons of the revolution, iDterestlDg Exercises Id HasicHall. Moses Yeaton and Samuel 8. Green, of Portsmouth, were also among the Invited Largre Audience Listens to guests. ● Occupying commanding positions upon E l o q u e n t A d d r e s s e s b y C o m ¬ the stage and resting upon easels were r a d e s F o s t e r a n d S m i t h . the two magnificent portraits In oil of the distinguished General William Whipple and the Intrepid Admiral David Glasgow "O, true descendant of apatriot line, Farragnt, both the centre of attraction Youchsaielthis picture ot thyself to see.” and admiration of the great multitude Within the walls of Mnslc hall was present. The front rows of seats In the parquet gathered apatriotic host on the evening were occupied by children of the Whipple of November 20th, l«tH. It was to wit¬ and Farragut schools, while Immediately ness the presentation by New Hampshire’s In their rear was Storer Post, the remain¬ pioneer Grand Army Post, Storer, No. der of the hall being completely filled with an interested audience. One, of Portsmouth, of the’portralts of The meeting was opened by the follow- General William ^Whipple and Admiral log David Glasgow; Farragnt to the city, A d d r e s s f r o m C h a i r m a n B e r r y. for the respective new school buildings Members of Storer Post and the City bearing the, honored names of.these dls- G o v e r n m e n t o f P o r t s m o u t h , tingnlshed heroes of difirdrent eras. Ladles and Gentlemen: -Having con¬ sented some time since to act In the ca¬ It was treading the path to noble ends pacity of chairman of ameeting called by when these veterans of the late war con¬ ajoint committee-of St'.rer Post and the ceived this idea, and the culmination of City Government, to take action on the their desires [In the exercises of Friday matter for which we are tonight assem¬ bled, Ifind devolving npon me and at this evening marked another epoch, so to ausplcions time the duty to act in the speak, in the history of good deeds for same capacity In conjauction with tne which this organization has always been c o m m a n d e r o f S t o r e r P o s t . While Iam quite sure that there are noted, deeds such as have written tender many others who could fill the duties of p o e m s o n m a n y h e a r t s a n d w h o s e a c t s the office much befer than myself, yet will remain as enduring as memory and as with your kind Indulgence Iwill endeavor substantial as our Granite hills. to serve you to the best of my ability. The public, too has.been grateful to ac¬ Ipresume yon are all aware for what purpose we have met, but for fear there knowledge the work of Storer Post and may be some one present who does not in this last great assemblage at Music hall fully understand, Iwill simply state that with its manifest interest was found that Storer Post, at great expense and much sacrifice on their part, have bad painted renewal of fraternity and appreciation two beautiful portraits, one of Admiral which must have made glad the hearts of Farragut and one of Gen. Whipple, the old veterans. which they are about to present to the 6

city, that they may adorn the walls of the 'decent respect to the opinions of mankind schools bearing their respective names. reqalres that they sbonld declare the canses And now wltbont further Intruding which Impel them to the separation. upon your time knowing that the exer¬ We hold these truths to be self-evident; cises will be much more Interesting to that all men are created equal; that they you than any remarks Ican offer, Iwill are endowed by their Creator with cer¬ call npon the children to open the same tain inalienable rights; that among these with mnslc. are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi¬ The response was aspirited rendering ness. That to secure these rights of "America” by the scholars present governments are instituted among men, representing the two schools, Wendell P. d e r i v i n g t h e i r j u s t p o w e r s f r o m t h e Brown of the Haven school, direct¬ consent of the governed; that whenever ing. and Harry Osgood, one of the Sons any form of government becomes de¬ of Veterans, presiding at the piano. structive of these ends it is the right of At the coDclnsion of the sons Chairman the people to alter or to abolish It, and to Berry arose and Introduced Commander Institute anew government, laying Its Joseph R. Curtis of Storer Post, G. A foundation on such principles and organ R,who in behalf of that organization izing Us powers In such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety spoke as follows: and happiness. Prudence, Indeed, will latrodaotory of Commander Cartls. dictate that governments long established Ladles and Gentlemen; The occasion should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all which calls ns together tonight Is one experience hath shown that mankind are that has long been looked forward to more disposed to suffer, while evils are with peculiar pleasure and Interest by sufferable, than to right themselves by the comrades of Storer Post No. 1, Dep't. abolishing the forms to which they are of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the accustomed. Republic. Iwill not stop at this stage of Bat, when along train of abuses and the meeting to state the object of our as¬ usurpations, pursuing Invariably the same sembling. object, evinces adesign to reduce them The purposes and hopes which have under absolute despotism, it is their right. animated the breasts of my comrades in It Is their duty, to throw off such govern¬ their work of procuring these masniflcent ment and to provide new guards for their and lifelike portraits of William Whipple future security. Such has been the pa¬ and David Glasgow Farragut for presen¬ tient sufferacce of these colonies, and tation to the city of Portsmouth for the such is now the necessity which con¬ splendid public school bulldiugs bearing strains them to alter their former systems their names, will, Itrust, be clearly set of government. The history of the forth In the exercises that are to follow. present king of Great Britain Is ahistory Before proceeding with the pleasurable of repeated injuries and usurpations, all duty assigned me by my comrade, Iwill having, la direct object, the establishment call upon Comrade Joseph Foster ,to of an absolute tyranny over these states. whose enthusiasm, perseverance and un¬ ● *«****● flagging zeal much of the success which We, therefore, the representatives of culminates so happily tonight is due, to the Uuited States nf America, In general address yon on the life and career of that ongrrss sHHumbUd, appealing to the distinguished statesman, patriot and Supreme Jud«e of the world for the rec¬ soldier, General William Whipple, Ports¬ titude of our In entlons, do, in the name mouth’s Signer of the Declaration of In¬ and by the authority of the good people dependence. of these colonies, solemnly publish and Ladles and Gentlemen, Ihave the pleas¬ declare that these united colonies are, ure of Introducing to yon Comrade Joseph and of right ought to be, free and Inde¬ Foster, Paymaster U. S. Navy. pendent states; that they are absolved Addraaa of Comrade Joseph Foster. from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the City them and the state of Great Britain is, Government of Portsmouth, Friends and ousht to be, totally dissolved; and and Comrades: that as free and independent states, they (tWhen, in the course of human events, have full power to levy war, conclnde It becomes necessary for one people to dis¬ peace, contract alliances, establish com¬ solve the political bands which have con¬ merce, and to do all other acts and things nected them with another, and to assume which Independent states may of right do. among the powers of the earth the separate And, for the support of this declaration, and equal station to which the laws of na¬ with afirm reliance on the protection of ture and of nature’s God entitle them, a Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to 4

each other onrllveB, onr fortunes, and our as the connecting link with many events s a c r e d h o n o r ” of local and national history. To these eloquent words of Thomas For this portrait will point the way to Jefferson, the Maana Charts of American the birthplace of William Whipple, In freedom, and the seed, which planted in Klttery, on the other bank of our noble the hearts of Ic versof liberty throushuut Piscataqoa, to his residence on Market the world, hax brought so many blessings street, where, south of the house, yet to all mankind, was signed the name of a stands the magnificent horse-chestnot citizen of Portsmouth, who, carrying out tree planted by him, and to the grave in his own patriotic instincts and the earnest the North cemetery where his ashes desire of our grandfathers, with Joslah rest,—and will thus teach, through him. Bartlett, of Kingston, and Matthew Thorn¬ in the most realistic way, the story of the ton, of Londonderry, his fellow-delegates American Revolution. from New Hampshire, united with fifty- It is ray privilege tonight to first In¬ three delegates from the other colonies in terpret its lesson and ti» tell the story of this the grandest act of all history, and the Declaration of Independence, and of thus forever immortalized his name on the the life of William Whipple; and If I roll of those supporters gnd protectors of seem to choose too frequently the phrases human rights and universal liberty whom of another who made astudy of the we proudly hall as the greatest benefac¬ lives of the Signers,* you will gain In t o r s o f m a n k i n d . exactness of statement and in eloquence The local Post of the Grand Army of of words what you may lose In originali¬ the Republic, which is in its very essence ty, and will therefore, Iam quite sure, be an historical society, realizing afew very willing to pardou my choice In this months since that the name of this, our matter.

most Illustrious citizen, bad almost passed (I from memory among ns, appointed acom¬ With the commencement of the year mittee to wait upon the City Government 1776, the affairs of the colonies, and and ask that the name of our Portsmouth certainly the views of their political signer of the Declaration of Independence leaders, began to assume anew aspect, might be given to the new school house one of m^re energy, and with motives on State street, and In acknowledgment and objects more decided and apparent. Eighteen months had passed away since of thtlr courtesy in accepting the sugges¬ the colonists had learned by the intrench- tion and adopting this name, Storer'Post has caused this beautiful oil portrait of ments at Boston, that aresort to arms William Whipple to be painted for pre¬ was an event, not beyond the con¬ sentation to the city to be placed in the templation of the British ministry. room occnpled. by the senior class at Nearly ayear had elapsed, since the Whipple school. fields of Concord and Lexington had History is the most interesting of been stained with hostile blood; during studies, for truth is always stranger and t h i s I n t e r v a l , a r m i e s h a d b e e s r a i s e d , more Impressive than fiction, bat to the vessels of war had been equipped, forti¬ mind of childhood it must be most difiicnlt fications had been erected, gallant exploits to place events in their proper positions had been performed, and eventful battles on the ladder of time, and Gettysburg, had been lost and won; yet still were the Bunker Hill, Waterloo and Marathon, provinces bound to their British brethren, with atbonsand other events in the by the ties of asimilar allegiance; still world’s^hlstory, must often be confusedly did they look upon themselves as mem¬ intermingled. bers of the same empire, subjects of the Bat the history of onr own country same sovereign, and partners In the same sbould.be foremost in every thought and constitution and laws. the love of Union and Liberty should be Every expedient, however, short of planted deep in the heart of childhood, unconditional separation, had now been a n d t o t h i s e n d S t o r e r P o s t p l a c e s t h i s tried by congress,—bat in vain. It ap¬ portrait in the Whipple school, aportrait peared worse than useless, longer to pur¬ presented by Portsmouth men who fought sue measures of open hostility, and yet to at Antletam, suffered at Andersonvllle hold out the promises reconciliation. and triumphed at Gettysburg,—battled The time had arrived when amore decid¬ with Farragut and Porter, and conquered e d s t a n d m u s t b e t a k e n , — t h e c l r c n m - with Winslow on our own “Kearsarge"— Bcances Of the nation demanded it, the that an object lesson should thus be given success of the struggle depended on it. to the children of Portsmouth, which may, The best and wisest men had become con¬ year after year, for many aday to come, vinced, that no accommodation could take be interpreted to them by their teachers, place, and that acoarse which was not Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, revised Fvnd edited by Eobert T. Conrad,” Philadelphia, 1816. 8

marked by decision, would create dissatls- been made lu the draught, as it was first facilon ani 'Dg the resolute, while It framed by the committee. would render more uncertain the feeble “When the question of independence and the wavering. was put. In acommittee of the whole, on During the spring of 1770, therefore, the first of July, ...and the pres¬ the question of Independence became one ident resumed the chair, the chairman of of very general Interest and reflection the committee of the whole made his re¬ among all classes of the nation. It was port, which was not acted upon until taken Into conslderatton by some of the Thursday, July 4. Every state, excepting colonial legislatures, and in Yirginia a Pennsylvania and Delaware, bad voted in resolution was adopted lu favor of Its favor of the measure, but it was amatter immediate declaration of great importance to procure an unani¬ Under these circumstances, the subject mous voice.” The return of one of the was brought directly before congress, on Delaware members, who was In favor of Friday, the seventh of June, 1770,” when the Declaration, secured the voice of Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, “moved that state on the fourth of July, and “two ‘that these United Colonies are, and of of the members of the Pennsylvania dele¬ right ought to be, free and Independent gation. adverse to the measure, being states jthat they are absolved from all absent, that state was also united in the allegiance to the British crown ;and that vote, by amajority of one. By these all political connection between them and means, the Declaration of Independence the state of Great Britain Is, and ought to became the unanimous act of the thirteen be, totally dissolved.’ ”"It was discussed states. very fully on the following Saturday and “Speaking of the Declaration of Inde¬ Monday,” and “on [Monday] the tenth of pendence,” Thomas Jefferson said, “that June it was resolved, ‘that the considera¬ ‘John Adams was the pillar of Its support tion of the resolution respecting indepen¬ on the floor of congress; Its ablest advo¬ dence be postponed till the first Monday cate and defender against the mnltifa- in July next; and In the meanwhile, that rlous assaults It encountered.’ ” no time be lost, in case the congress agree The transport of his [Mr. Adams’] thereto, that acommittee be appointed to feelings, the exuberance of his prepare adeclara-Ion to the effect of the said resolution. joy, on ...[the adoption of the Dec¬ laration,] may be seen most vividly por¬ This committee consisted of Thomas trayed in the letter which he wrote to Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Mrs. Adams on the succeeding day—a let¬ Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of ter that is memorable, and now embalmed Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connec¬ In American history, simply because it is ticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New so true and inartificial an effusion of York; Mr. Lee, the orlg'ual mover of a r d e n t , e n l i g h t e n e d , a n d d i s i n t e r e s t e d the resolution, being called home by “the patrlot'sm. .dangerous Illness of some members of his family;” “and to Mr. Jeflerson, the chair¬ ‘Yesterdav,’ he says, ‘the greatest ques¬ tion was decided, that was ever debated man of the committee, was ultimately as¬ In America; and greater, perhaps, never signed the important duty of preparing was or will be decided among men. A the draught of the document, for the for¬ resolution was passed, without one dis¬ mation of which they had been appointed. senting colony, ‘that these United States The task thus devolved upon Mr. are, and of right ought to be, free and Jefferson, was of no ordinary magnitude; Independent states’. The day is passed. and required the exercise of no common The fourth of July, 1776, will be amem¬ judgment and foresight. To frame such orable epoch in the history of America. adocument, was the effort of no common Iam apt to believe it wid be celebrated, mind. That of Mr. Jefferson proved fully by succeeding generations, as the great equal to!, the task, His labors received anniversary festival. It ought to be the immediate approbation and sancti(>n commemorated as the day of deliverance, of the committee: and their oplillon has by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty. beeu[conflrmed by the testimony of suc- Ood. It ought to be solemnized with ceedlngjears, aud of every nation where pomps, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, I t h a s b e e n k n o w n . bonfires, and illuminations, from one end On the twenty-eighth of June, the of the continent to the other, from this Declaration of Independence was pre¬ time forward for ever. You will think sented to congress, and read. On the me transported with enthusiasm, but Iam first, second, and third of July, It was not. Iam well aware of the toll, and taken Icto full consideration; and on the blood, and treasure, that It will cost to fourth, It was agreed to after several al¬ maintain this declaration, and snpport and terations, and considerable omissions had |defend these states; yet through all the 9 gloom, Ican see the nys of light and Congress directed that it should be en- g'ory. Iran see that the end is worth grsBsed on parchment, and signed by ev¬ more than ail the means; and that pos- ery member, and that It was so produced terity wilt triumph, althongh yon and I on the second of Angnst, and signed. may rne, which 1hope we shall not. »» This Is interlined in the secret Journal, Oo the 16th day of Jane, 1776. the New in the hand of Charles Thomson, the Hampshire Leglslatare had instrncted the secretary.” delegates in Congress from New Hamp¬ IIThe printed jonmals of Congress, in¬ shire, to Join with the other colonies in deed, make it appear, that the Declaration declaring the thirteen United Colonies a of Independence was adopted and signed free and independent state. on the fourth of July, by the gentlemen And “on that memorable day, [when] whose names are subscribed to it under the decisive vote was taken, which re¬ tbe head of that date. Bnt this impres¬ sulted in the nnanimoDs declaration of all sion Is incorrect; because, in fact not the states in favor of Independence, [New one signature was afflxed to the Declara¬ Hampshire spoke flist, for] in taking the tion nntil the second of Angust. The question the northernmost colony was idea of signing does not appear to have first called on, and Dr. [Joslah] Bartlett, occurred immediately; for not nntil tbe [of New Hampshire, bom 1729, died nineteenth of July ... did the resolu¬ 1795] had the accidental, bnt interesting tion pass, directing the Declaration to be duty of first giving bis voice In favor of engrossed on parchment. This was ac¬ the resolntlon.” cordingly done; and on the second of And William Whipple of Portsmouth, Angnst following, when tbe engrossed the only other delegate from New Hamp¬ copy was prepared, and not before, the shire, then serving in congress, was Declaration was signed by the members, doubtless the second to give his vote in who on that day were present In congress. favor of Independence. ,..Those members who were abserit on For, “un the twenty third of January, the second of August, snb«cribed tbe 1776, asecond election for delegates Declaration as soon after as opportunity [from New Hampshire] to the continen¬ offered. tal Congress [had] occurred” and Josiah The engrossed copy of tbe Declaration Bartlett of Kingston, and “bis mr st at¬ of Independence was placed on the desk tached personal friends, William Whipple of the secretary of congress, on the aod John Langdon,” of Por^month, were second of Angnst, to receive the signa¬ chosen. The two fojmer “long served” tures of the members, aod Mr. Hancock, with each other “in Congress, and their president of congress, during aconversa¬ signatures are fonnd together on the tion with Mr [Charles] Carroll [of Mary¬ charter of Independence. Mr. Langdon, land, who had only taken bis seat on the owing to an appointment to another of¬ eighte -nth of tbe previons month], avked fice lost the opportunity of recording bis him If he would sign It. ‘Most willingly’, patriotic sentiments in the same conspic- was the reply, and taking apen, he at u o n s m a n n e r . once put his name to the Instmment. aiOn the twelfth of September. 1776,” ‘There goes afew millions,’said one of Matthew Thornton, of Londonderry, born those who stood by; and all present at the 1714, died 1803 “was appointed, by the time agreed, that in point of fortune, few bonse of representatives, adelegate to risked more than Charles Carroll of represent the state of New Hampshire in Carrollton.” Congress, during the term of one year. The case of Mr. Carroll was not singu¬ He did not take bis seat in that illnsirlons lar, for besides Dr. Thornton of New body until the fourth of November fol¬ Hampshire, already mentioned, five of lowing, being four months after the pas¬ the Fennsylvaiila delegates who signed sage of the Declaration of Independence; the Declaration were not present in con¬ bnt he immediately acceded to It, and was gress on the fourth of July, 1776, “not permitted to place bis signature on the having been chosen delegated by tbe engrossed copy of the instrument, among legislature of Pennsylvania nntil the those of the fifty-six worthies, who have twentieth day of that mouth,” “to succeed i m m o r t a l i z e d t h e i r n a m e s b y t h a t m e m - those members of tbe Pennsylvania crable and magnanlmons act.” delegation, who had refused their assent “The Declaration of Independence to tbe Declaration of Independence, and . . . w a s a c c o m p a n i e d I n i t s fi r s t abandoned their seats in congress.” publication by the rignatnrc of Mr Han¬ William Ellery, one of the Signers from cock alone,” and “the manu'crlpt public Rhode Island, in after years, “often spoke journal has no names annexed to the Dec¬ of tbe signing of tbe Declaration; and he laration of Independence,nor has the secret spr^ke of it as an event which many juumal; but It appears by toe latter, that regarded with awe, perhaps with nn- on the nineteenth Of July, 1776, the certalnty, bnt none with fear. ‘X was de- 10 termlned,' he used to say, ‘to see 4 ( ( They are no more, they are dead. Bat how they all looked, as they signed what how little Is there of the great and good might be their death warrant. 1plated which can die! To their countiy they myself beside the secretary, Charles yet live, and live for ever. They live in Thomson, and eyed each closely as he all that perpetuates the remembrance of affixed his name to thedccument. Un¬ men on earth: in the recorded proofs of daunted resolution was displayed in their own great actions, in the offspring every countenance.’ ” of their Intellect, In the deep engraved When the fiftieth anniversary of the lines of public gratitude, and in the re¬ Declaration of Independence approached, spect and homage of mankind. They live two only of the committee that prepared in their example; and they live, emphat¬ that document, and of the Congress that ically, and will live, In the influence voted its adoption and promulgation, and which their lives and rfforts, their prin¬ one more besides of those who inscribed ciples and opinions, now exercise, and their names upon it, yet survived. 17 will continue to exercise, on the affairs of “‘Like the books of the Sybil, the men, not only in their own country, but 971 living signers of the Declaration of hroughont the civilized world. Independence increased in value as they The Declaration of Independence was d i m i n i s h e d i n n u m b e r. ’ O n t h e t h i r d o f publicly proclaimed in Portsmouth, on July, 1826, three only remained,—John the 18th of July, 1776, from the steps, Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles facing on King street, of the Old State Carroll of Carrollton. On the fourth of House, built in 1758 upon aledge of rocks July, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the occupying the centre of our present day on which they pledged their all Market square, which stood there un¬ to their country, when the ten millions til removed in 1837; and when the read¬ who were indebted to them for liberty, ing was finished, Thomas Mannii g, ade¬ were celebrating the year of jubile.e; voted patriot of Portsmouth, some of when the names of the three signers were whose descendants now attend the Whip¬ on every lip, John Adams and Thomas ple school, threw his hat in the air, Jefferson died, leaving Charles Carroll of shouting “Huzza for Congress street,"It Carrollton the last link between the past which then and there became its name; a and” that “generation.” name which in memory of the Congress of That such an anniversary should be 1776 it will, Itrust, forever bear. This the day appointed for'the departure of story of the naming of Congress street is the two co-laborers” was astartling co¬ perhaps familiar to every Portsmouth dt incidence, and “the universal burst of izcn, and doubtless each also knows the feeling in all parts of this country, locality of Liberty bridge, and Itrust its showed that the nation recognized some¬ story, too. But while all may know these thing in the dispensation beyond the in- idents of our local history, and that the ordinary laws of human existence.” first overt act of the Revolution was the “They departed cheered by the bene¬ capture on the night of the 13th of De¬ dictions of their country, to whom they cember, 1774, at Fort William and Mary, left the inheritance of their fame, and now Fort Constitution, by the patriots of the memory of their bright example.” (( Portsmouth and vicinity, of the powder, On the fourteenth of November, 1832, w h i c h a l i t t l e l a t e r w a s s o b r a v e l y e x ¬ Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last of pended at Bunker Hill,yet few realize the the signers, full of years and full of hon¬ fact that this William Whipple,—illustri¬ ors, closed his earthly career [aged 93 ous both in state and field—besides sign¬ years], Anation’s tears were shed upon ing the Declaration of Independence, took his grave; anation’s gratitude hallows his aprominent part in the capture of Bnr- memory.’ 4« goyne, avictory which delivered the Amer¬ They pledged their lives, their for¬ ican cause from the greatest peril and tunes, and their sacred honor; and not brought joy without measure to the peo¬ one was false to the pledge—not one I ple, and that in behslf of General Gates They suffered much; some died from he signed the articles- of capitulation of hardships encountered, some were im¬ the British troops; and afterward was prisoned, many were impoverished, and one of the ofllcers under whose charge all were tempted by promises, and men¬ they were conducted to their place of aced by the wrath of what seemed, for a encampment on Winter hill, near Boston. time, an earthly omnipotence: but all stood Let me tell his story as briefly as Imay. firm. There was donbt previous to the William Whipple was the son of Capt. declaration—none after. Every name William Whipple, senior, of Klttery, Me., shone brighter as the darkness thickened. anative of Ipswich, Mass., (whither his Each patriot was asun that stood fast great grandfather. Elder John Whipple, ...until the battle of Independence had came from Essex, England, in or before It been fought and won. 1639) who died the 7th of August, 1751, 11 aged 66 years. William Whipple, the son, same year, he was also chosen one of the was born the 14th of January, 1730, in the committee of safety for the town of 4< Whipple garrison house” on Whipple’s Portsmouth. cove, Kittery, his father’s house, and pre¬ At the close of the year 1775, the people viously the home of his maternal grand¬ of New Hampshire assumed aform of father and great grandfather, Hobert government, consisting of ahouse of Cult, first and second, where Harrison J. representatives and acouncil of twelve, Phllbrlck now resides. the president of which was the chief ex¬ He was educated In the public schools ecutive officer. Mr. Whipple was chosen of Kittery, and early went to sea, as did one of the council, on the sixth of Jan¬ so many Kittery and Portsmouth boys uary, 1776, and on the twenty third of the from that time np to the breaking ont of same month, adelegate to the general the Rebellion, for a“Life on the Ocean congress :he took his seat on the 29 th of Wave” was for many years the most February following. He continued to promising one here open to an energetic and be re elected to that distinguished situa¬ ambitions boy. He obtained the com¬ tion in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, and mand of avessel before he was twenty- applied himself with diligence and ability one years of age, and engaged in the to the discharge of Its duties, when the Knropean, West India and African trade, military services which he rendered during in one voyage, at least, bringing slaves, It that period permitted him to be an acting Is said, to this country from Africa, for member of the New Hampshire delegation. at that time, more than one hundred and In the middle of September, 1779, he thirty years ago, and for thirty or forty finally retired from congress, after having years afterwards, slaves were held in attended, without the least Intermission, New Hampshire; and, indeed, the consti¬ at his post of duty, from the fifth of the tution of the United States authorized preceding month of November. their importation from Africa Into this Whilst in congress, he was considered a country until the year 1808, fifty years very nsefnl and active member, and dis¬ later. charged the duties of his office in amanner In 1769, at the age of 29, he abandoned alike honorable to himself and satisfac¬ the sea entirely, and entered into bnsiness tory to his constituents. In the current in Portsmouth with his brother, under the and committed business of the house, be firm name of William and Joseph Whip¬ displayed equal perseverance, ability, and ple, which connection lasted till about application. His early pursuits rendered two years previous to the Revolution. him particularly useful as amember of the At an early period of the contest, he committees of marine and of commerce; took adecided part in favor of the colo¬ and, as one of the superintendents of the nies, In their opposition to the claims of commissary’s and quarter-master’s depart¬ Great Britain; and his townsmen, placing ments, he labored, with much assiduity, the highest confidence in his patriotism to correct the abuses which had prevailed, and integrity, frequently elected him to and to place those establishments upon offices which required great firmness and such afooting as might best conduce to the moderation. In January, 1776, he was public service. When the depreciation of chosen one of the representatives of the the continental currency became excessive, town of Portsmouth to the provincial he strongly opposed new emissions of congress, held at Exeter for the purpose paper, as tending to the utter destruction of choosing delegates to the general con¬ of public confidence. gress, which was to meet In Philadelphia Soon after Mr. Whipple’s return to New on the tenth of May following. Hampshire [in 1777], he was called on to When the disputes between the two exercise his patriotism in scenes and countries were approaching to acrisis, modes yet untried. He had bufleted the the provincial committee of safety of waves as aseaman; he had pursued the New Hampshire recommended that a peaceful occupations of amerchant; provincial congress should be formed, for and he had distinguished himself as a the purpose of directing and managing legislator and astateman; but he was the public affairs of the state during the n o w c a l l e d o n t o u n d e r g o t h e s e v e r e r term of six months. The delegates from personal duties, and to gather the more the town of Portsmouth were five in conspicuous laurels of asoldier. The n u m b e r, a m o n g w h o m w a s C a p t a i n overwhelming force of Burgoyne having Whipple. He accordingly attended the Compelled the American troops to meeting of the congress, which convened evacuate their strong post at Tlconderoga, at Exeter In the beginning of May, 1776, universal alarm prevailed in the north. and was elected by that body one of the T h e c o m m i t t e e o f t h e ‘ N e w H a m p s h i r e provincial committee of safety, who were Grants,’ which had now formed them¬ to regulate the affairs of government dur¬ selves into aseparate state, wrote In the ing the war. In the early part of the most pressing terms to the committee of 12

safety at Exeter, for assistance. The Hampshire hastened In great numbers to assembly of Ne«r Hampshire was immedi- Join the standard of General Gates. In ately convened, and adopted the most the desperate battles of Stillwater and of effectnal and decisive measures for the Saratoga, the troops of New Hampshire defence of the conntry. They formed gained alarge share of the honor dne to the whole militia of the state into two the American army. The conseqnence of brigades, giving the command of the first these engagements was the surrender to William Whipple, and of the second of General Burgoyne. When the to General Stark. General Stark was British army capitulated, be was Immediately ordered to march, ‘to stop appointed, with Colonel Wilkinson, as the the progress of the enemy on onr western representative of General Gates, to meet frontiers’, with one-fourth of bis briKsde, two officers from General Bnrgoyne, for and one-fonrth of three regiments belong- the pnrpose of propounding, dlscnssing, ing to the brigade of General Whipple. and settling several snbordinate articles Burgoyne, presuming that no more and regulations springing fr with all the apparatus, stores, and equip- tween the advanced guards of the two ments, which the nature of the service armies, where they met Lleutenant-Colo- requlred. His army was principally nel Sutherland, and Captain Craig of the composed of veteran corps of the best forty-seventh regiment, on the afternoon troops of Britain and Germany, and of the sixteenth of October, 1777. Hav- American loyalists furnished it with ing produced and exchanged credentials, spies, scouts, and rangers: annmerons they proceeded to discuss the objects of body of savages, in their own dress and their appointment, and in the evening with their own weapons, and characteris- signed the articles of capltnlation. After tic ferocity, increased the terrors of its the attainment of this grand object. Gen- approach. e r a l W h i p p l e w a s s e l e c t e d a s o n e o f t h e Elnshed by aconfidence in his superior officers, under whose command the British force, and deceived in his opinion of the troops were conducted to their destined number of friendly loyalists, the British iencampment on Winter hill, near Boston, i general despatched Lieutenant-Colonel |General Whipple was attended on this Baum from Fort Edward, with about expedition by avaluable negro servant fifteen hundred of hts German troops, named Prince, whom he bad Imported and abody of Indians, to overrun the from Africa many years before. On bis ‘Grants* as far as the Connectlcnt river, way to the army, he told his servant that i for the purpose of collecting horses to if they should be called into action, he mount the dragoons, and cattle, both for expected that be wonld behave like aman labor and provisions. He was encoun¬ of courage, and fight bravely for his tered at Bennington by the intrepid Stark, country. Prince replied, ‘.Sir, Ihave no who canled the works which he had con- inducement to fight jbut if Ihad my llber- structed, by assault, and hilled or cap- ty, Iwould endeavor to defend it to the tnred the greater part of bis detachment; last drop of my blood.’ The General afew only escaped into the woods, and manumitted him on the spot. ... saved themselves by flight. N o r w a s t h e e x p e d i t i o n a g a i n s t B n r - Thls victory gave asevere check to the goyne the oniy military affair that Mr. hopes of the enemy, and revived the spir- Whipple was engaged in during his ab- Its of the people after along depression, sence from congress. The courage of the militia increased with It may be recollected that in the latter their reputation, and they found that part of the summer [of 1778], when Count neither British nor German regulars were d’Estaing had abandoned his project of invincible. Bnrgoyne was weakened and attacking the British fleet at New York, a disheartened by the event, and beginning plan was formed for his co-operatlou to perceive the danger of his situation, be with General Sullivan in retaking Rhode now considered the men of New Hamp- Island from the British. To aid in this soire and the Green Mountains, whom he measure the militia of the adjoining had. viewed with contempt, as dangerous states were called ont, and rhe detacb- enemies. ... ment of New Hampshire was placed The northern army was now reinforced under the the command of General Wblp- by the militia of all the neighboring pie. The scheme, owing to some ^i- states. Brigadier General Whipple dent, or the neglect of aproper nqder- marched with agreat part of his brigade; standing, proved nnsucessfnl, and pen- and volunteers from all parts of New eral Sullivan was only able to save

I h i s a r m y b y a j a d i c l o n s r e t r e a t . but to expedite that colie-tion by all Daring this brief campaign, it is re¬ proper means, and incessantly to urge corded, that one morning [the 29ib of the local anthorities to comply with the Angnst, 1778], whilst annmoer of officers requisitions of congress.” This position were at breakfast at the general’s quar¬ he letalned, at Mr. Morris’solicitation, ters, at the position on the north end of and much against his own wishes,until Au¬ the island [on which Newport Is situat¬ gust, 1784. ed], the British advanced to an eminence In 1782 he was president of acourt, about three quarters of amile distant; organized by Congress, which met at perceiving horses and agnard before the Trenton, New Jersey, to determine the door, they discharged afield piece, which dispute, "between the states of Pennsyl¬ killed one of the horses, and the ball, vania and Connecticut, relative to certain penetrating the side of the house, passed lands at Wyoming,” which resulted in the under the table where the officers were unanimous decision of the court that Con¬ sitting, and shattered the leg of the necticut had "no right to the lands in con¬ brigade major of General Whipple’s troversy.” [bngade] In such amanner that amputa¬ General Whipple resigned his military t i o n w a s n e c e s s a r y. " T h i s o f fi c e r w a s appointment June 20tb, 1782, and his fail¬ Major John Samuel Sherburne, of Ports¬ ing health prevented him, after this time, mouth, nephew of General Whiople’s from engaging in the more active scenes wife, and brother of Governor LangdonV, of life.” who was subsequently amember of Con¬ “On the [same day, the] twentieth of gress (,1793-1796), and Judge of the June, 1782, be was appointed aJudge of United States Court for the district of the superior court of Judicature” of New New Hampshire. He was Irreverently Hampshire, and "on the twenty-fifth called "Cork-leg Sherburne” by the boys of December, 1784,... aJustice of the of long ago, and afterwards resided in peace and quorum thronghont the state.” the house on Court street next west of General Whipple died in Portsmouth, 44 t h e C o u r t h o u s e . on the twenty-eighth day of November, »» itThe design for which the militia were 1786, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, called out having thus proved abortive, and "his body was deposited in the North many of them were discharged, and burying ground in Portsmouth.” General Whipple with those under his William Whipple married bis cousin, command returned to New Hampshire. Catharine Moffatt, of Fortsmonth, who According to the pa} -roll for the general oled iu 1823, at the very advanced age of and staff of his division of volunteers, it 100 years. He left no descendants. It is appears that he took the command on the said he had seven children, all of 26th of July, and returned en the 5th of whom died in infancy, but his son "Wil¬ September 1778." liam Whipple, died April 29th, 1773, aged ●●The high c-mslderation in which 1year,” whose stone stands near his own b i s s e r v i c e s w e r e h e l d b y c o n g r e s s d i d In the North cemetery, is the only one of not cease to accompany Mr. Whipple in whoso birth or death we have positive his retirement. In the beginning of the evidence. year 1780 he was appointed acommission¬ How can I, in the time allotted to me, er of the board of admiralty, which office tell yon of the many things in which the he declined accepting, owing to the men and women of Whipple’s blood have situation of his private affairs.” taken part from the first settlement of <4In the [same] year, 1780, immediately the Colonies until now I after his retirement from Congress, he It is Impossible to do tbe subject Jus¬ was elected amember of the legislature, to tice ;and for information concerning his which office he was repeatedly chosen ancestors and family, Imust refer you to [1780 to 1784] and continued to enjoy the the Appendix to "The Presentation of confidence and approbation of his fellow- Flags to tbe Schools of Portsmouth, N. » citizens,” H,October 9th, 1890, by Storer Post, itIn May, 1782, the snperintendent of where several letters written by General finance, confiding in ‘his Inclination and Whipple during the Revolution, and many abilities to promote the interests of the details of his life will also be found. [See United States,’ appointed Mr. Whipple Addenda ] receiver for the state of New Hampshire, But now, Imust at least pay my trib¬ acommission at once arduous and un¬ ute, and acknowledge the Indebtedness! popular. It was invariably the rule of of the Post for his sympathy and gener¬ Mr. [Robert] Morris to grant this ap¬ ous aid in procuring this portrait to that pointment only to men of tried integrity eminent poet, essayist and statesman, and invincible patriotism. The duty of James Russell Lowell, great grandson of the office was not only to receive and General Whipple’s sister, Mary (Whipple; transmit the sums collected in the state. Traill, whose recent death, 12th Angnst, u

1891, In Cambridge, Mass., the whole cool and coarageous; as ajudge, be was English speaking world laments; for he digniaed and impartial; and as amember with all his father's family always had a of many subordinate public offices, be strong interest in Portsmouth, and in the was alert and persevering. Few men Portsmouth stock from which they rose more rapidly and worthily in the sprung. scale of society, or bore their new honors Scarcely ayear has gone by since the with more modesty and propriety. day when Storer Post presented the Flags One hundred and fifteen years have to the Schools of Portsmouth, and yet passed since William Whipple pledged his the comrades who spoke for the Post at life, hU fortune, and his sacred honor. In both the Whipple and Farragut schools behalf of our National liberty and free¬ have passed to abetter world. Sincerely dom ;but while love of country and the monrning their deaths, we know that the hag shall be cherished among ns, let ns people of Portsmouth grieve with ns for trust that the teachers and pupils of the good citizens and gallant men who the Whipple school will beep his memory have gone,—for the soldier (George E. green, and on each recurring Memorial Hodgdon, Lieut. 10th N. H. Infantry, and Day and Fourth of July, will garland his Capt U. S. C. T.)—brave In war, and in grave with flowers, in perpetual memory peace the earnest student of the history of the fact that by his hand the people of of onr city, our mayor, friend, and the Portsmouth signed, and through him protector of the poor and weak, whose claim their share, in the glory of the nobility of heart won for him the proud Declaration of Independence. title of “counsel for the defence,”—for the ● sailor (Captain Arthur R. Tates, U. S. At the conclusion of this address Com¬ Navy)—brare in war, without peer in mander Curtis then spoke as follows: peace, our Naval Bayard, beloved by all Inow call upon Comrade Joseph A. who knew him. Smith, agallant representative of the U. And now, before closing, may I, in 8. Navy, who generously gave the pro¬ behalf of my comrades of the Grand ceeds of his brilliant lecture delivered in Army and of this meeting, express the this ball one year ago, on the memorable hope that before long amarble tablet may fight between the U. S. 8. Kearsarge and be placed on the front of Whipple school the Confederate cruiser Alabama, to- to tell every passer by its name and that wards the expense of procnring these Portsmouth here honors her Signer of the portraits, to address yon on the life and Declaration of Independence. Let ns career of that greatest naval hero of trust, also, that before many months a modem times, David Glasgow Farragut. substantial wall, now mnch needed, may Ladles and Gentlemen, Ihave the pleas¬ b e e r e c t e d b e t w e e n t h e l a n d o f t h e B o s ¬ ure of Introducing to yon Comrade Joseph ton and Maine railroad and the south A. Smith, Pay Inspector, U. 8. Navy. western part of the old North cemetery, where rests not only the ashes of William Whipple, but of many others whose Address of Comrade Joeepli A. Smith. names and fame are very dear to the M r C H A J R M A t l : people of Portsmouth. Ladies and GentlemenI know not by “Mr. Whipple was possessed of a what chance it has happened that Ihave strong mind, and quick discernment; he been requested to speak at th

commander in chief, living today, equals Ing day the prealdent named Famgnt for in varieto and usefulness, that through the office and the nomination was imme¬ which Farragut passed before reaching diately confirmed by the senate- the age of thirteen years. At-hort period of profound peace had But it was the deeds of later life that enabled the people to more jnstly ealimate m a d e h i m f a m o u s . Ihe services rendered to his country by After returning to New York on the our first vice admiral, and congress, on Essex jr be was assigned to the 74 line the 25th of July, 1866, created the grade of battle ship Independence, with Bain- of admiral, and, for the first time In our bridge ;to the Wsshington under Cbann- conntry bestowed that rank on our al¬ cey; to the Mosquito fleet, under Porter ready honored naval captain. again, 1823—4; to the command of the Some of us remember how the brilliant schooner Ferret at the age of 22 years; naval exploits of Farragut fairly startled in 1825 he was assigned to the Brandy¬ our waiting people into paroxysms of ap¬ wine which conveyed Lafayette home to plause and the general demand that was France after his visit to the United made upon the government forthe exalted States; then he was assigned to the h o n o r s i t b e s t o w e d . Brazilian station as execntlve of tbe Icannot undertake to rehearse them at Delaware and afterwards to the command length, but they have placed Farragnt at of the Boxer and the Decatur; in 1838 he the very top of the ladder of fame as a commanded tbe Erie at Vera Cruz; dar¬ naval fighter. ing the Mexican war 1847. he commanded No better estimate can be formed of the Saratoga; in 1864 he established the public sentiment toward Farragnt at the navy yard at Mare Island, California; in time of these exploits, than by citing the 1860 he commanded tbe Brooklyn in tbe opinion of his contemporary, General Gulf of Mexico; and later, when our Butler, of the volunteer army, who wrote Great Rebellion broke forth, he was liv¬ in anote of congratulations on the battle ing in his adopted home, Norfolk, Va. of Mobile: "I need not use the Ian ;e Amid tbe fluctuating opinions of the of compliment where none is neede It time there was no wavering doubt in Far- is all said in one word: It was like yon. ragnt’s mind. With him it was not a Reminding me so much of the passage choice of states or of flaas. He followed of the Mississippi forte, was it wonderful the line of duty, and the fljg that he that, boy-like, in my tent all alone, when had sworn to support, the flig for which the rebel journal was brought la and the he fought in bis cherub days. official telegram read that you and seven¬ Severing the social ties that bound him teen of your vessels had passed Fort Mo^ to Norfolk, he moved with his family to gan, Icalled out,—‘Three cheers for Hastings on tbe Hudson in New York, Farragnt.’ They were given with awill and in 1862 tbe government assigned that brought in my staff and orderlies, him to tbe command of tbe West Gulf who. thought their general had gone crazy, Squadron. It was in ti ls capacity that perhaps from asun stroke, whereas it was his splendid powers shone forth, and con only astroke of good luck, of high daring firmed the evidence of hiah qualities as and noble enterprise, quite as brilliant as anaval commanoer that might have been anything the snn could do. Let me assure observed by an examination of hts pre¬ you. Admiral, that those cheers, the first v i o u s c o n d o c t . given on the occasion in the loyal north, His passage by Forts Jackson and St. are not done ringing yet; but every hill¬ Philip, In 1862, with his fleet of wooden top 1s resounding with them, as they are ships, and tbe capture of New Orleans; caught up from hamlet to hamlet, and bis passage by the batteries of Vicksbnrg city to city, of agrateful nation. 1speak In tbe same year; the cap'ure of Galves¬ no language of hyperbole, and only the ton and Sabine City; his passaue by Port words of sincere admlratiou, when Isay I Hudson in 1863; the siege of Vicksburg; envy yon, alone of ail men, for the place the siege of Port Hudson; his passage you have in the hearts of your country¬ by Fons Morgan and Gaines at the en¬ men.” trance to Mobile Bay, 1864, are among Farragut has sometimes been called the the notable events of the rebellion. American Nelson, in consequence of the H i s c o m m i s s i o n a s R e a r A d m i r a l w a s brilliancy of bis achievements, but, ex¬ accompanied by the thanks of Congress cept in the respect that both were skillful to himself and the officers and men of seamen and naval commanders of great his squadron for the gallantry displayed courage, and fertility of resource, the in passing Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. resemblance ends. Subsequently, with the view of con Aman may possess fighting qualities ferring on him still higher honors, the without possessing the elements of true grade of vice admiral was created on the heroism. It may be well for our young 20th of December 1864, and on the follow- friends to know that the highest heroism 17

partakes of something better and nobler Phoebe and trinmpbantly fought against than the mere violence of battle for con¬ odds for his darling pig. quest, for the so-called honor of kings, That was heroism because be was im¬ for the applanse of senseless mnltltndes, pelled by the spirit that braved every¬ for the acqairement of titles and rank, or thing in defence of his conception of for the gain of gold. right, regardless of consequences. The cruel gladiator that fights to kill; We learn also, from his instractor, the brnUl pnglllst that fights to beat his that in bis youth he bad a“manly way of adversary into insensibility; the savage thinking.” Indian that fights for scalps; the lawless When the rebellion was threatened and pirate that fights for plnnder, all possess an acquaintance warned him that he the courage to fight yet they are not he¬ “could not live In Norfolk”, he replied,— roes. “well then Ican live somewhere else.” True heroism partakes of all the vlrtnes To bis wife he said; “I shall stick to that impel men to deeds of self sacrifice the flrg. This act of mine may canse ta benefit their fellowmen, and the years of separation from your family; so greater the virtues of such men the you must decide quickly whether you will greater and truer is their hHrotsm. go north or remain here.” The decision Courage, added to these, perfects the was made and he moved with his family hero. Heroism may be clothed in the to Hastings on the Hudson. This resolve vestments of the priest, or wrapped in w a s t r u e h e r o i s m . the robes of asister of mercv, or covered At this time he was sixty years of age by the Jacket of aschoolboy, and hal already attained the highest rank Lnther, the preacher, believed in per¬ of our naval service. This action was sonal devils, bat he was not afraid of asacrifice. them—be defied them. Carlisle tells us Amid the strongest Indncements, that that Lather, when translating one of his h i s s o u t h e r n f r i e n d s c o u l d o ff e r h i m , t o psalms, when worn with sickness and renounce his allegiance to his government fasting, there rose before him adreadful he followed the dictates of conscience and image that te took for the evil one to adopted as his guide and motto Loyalty forbid b<8 work; Lather started ap with and Duty to his country and to his Ctod. fiend defiance, finng his Inkstand at the He wrote: “God alone decides the con¬ spectre and it disappeared. test. He who dies doing his duty to his 11The devil is aware,” he writes, “that country, and at peace with his God has this does not proceed out of fear in me. played out the drama of life to the best Ihave seen and defied numerous devils, advantage." “I trust in Him as amerci¬ nnke George of Llepzlg, aviolent enemy ful being; bat really in war it seems os of Lathers, is not equal to one devil. If if wo ought hardly to expect mercy when Ihad business in Llepzlg Iwould ride men are destroying one another upon Into Llepzlg thoagh it laioed Duke qnestions of which He alone is Judge. Georges for nine days running.” Motive seems to constitute right and And Carlisle adds, “what areservoir of wrong. ’After his victory at Now d u k e s t o r u n l o t o . ” Orleans he wrote: “My dearest wife and This was high heroism, becanse Lnther boy: Iam BO agitated that Ican scarcely braved not only visible, but invisible evil, write, and shall only tell yoa that it has and be believed that he braved the pleased Almighty God to preserve my veritable devil lu the sacred cause of life through afire such as the world baa saving bis fellowmen from eternal associa¬ scarcely known.” tion with that cloven-footed tempter. Later he wrote: “Senator McDougal, I What atypical young hero Mrs. Hemans hear, has asked for avote of thanks for depicts in Casablanca, the boy sailor, me. Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, who, charged by his father not to leave for be shall not be disappointed. Iregret bis post in battle stood steadfast amid that Bailey did not get the thanks of the terro's of his barning ship that was congress.” blown to atoms by the explosion of the In these lines to his wife and son is powder magazine. And “the noblest something pathetic: "In the coarse of thing that perished there was that young, human longevity Ihave not long to live, f a i t h f u l h e a r t ” . and, although it would be most agreeable It has been shown that Farragnt as a to spend it with you both it is our place boy on the Essex displayed the same to submit to HU will and do our duty.” heroic qualities that shone so resplendent- When in front of Vicksburg he wrote :“I ly in his maturer years. trust that God will smile on our efforts as It was the moral strength of the boy’s He has done before. Ithink more shonld nature that supported him when prisoner have been left to my discretion; bat I of war, and weeping, he stepped into a hope for the best, and pray God to pro¬ ring of English sailors on the deck of the tect our poor sailors from barm.” 18

At New Orleans he wrote: “Don’t give When Fam^t bad passed the fort, the yourself any uneasiness about any one’s ram again left her anchorage and steered trying to undermine me Ifortify directly for the flag ship. The Hartford myself as well as Ican and trust to my d i d n o t w a i t f o r t h e a t t a c k b a t t o o k t h e honesty for the rest.” aggressive and following the Lackawanna, How our sympathy reaches backward struck the Tennessee afearful blow and to this grand, uncomplaining man as we delivered abroadside of shot without ap¬ read the following from aletter to his parent efi'ect on the monster ram. wife,in aboy’s handwriting; “Father’s I n t h e m e a n t i m e t h e C h i c k a s a w, t h e eyes have given ont; so Iwill finish this Winnebago and Manhattan hammered her letter. He has been mnch worried at with heavy shot until, at last, her steering these things, (referring to certain naval apparatus, smokestack and port shatters disasters,) but still tries to bear It like a were shot away, her commander was philosopher. He knows he has done all wounded and in this condition showed the in his power to avert it, with the vessels white flag and surrendered. Farragnt at bis disposal. If the government bad m o n r n e d o v e r t h e l o s s o f b i s b r a v e only let him take Mobile when he wished men. to, the Oreto wopld never have rnn out.” When the Impregnability of the ram is After passing Fort Hudson he wrote; considered, together with the fatal danger it Would to God that Ionly knew that of submerged torpedoes that obstructed our friends on the other ships were well available passages; and the powerful as we are. ...You know my creed: I batteries of the forts that bore upon the never send others in advance when there Union Fleet, there is good reason to is adonbt, and being one on whom the believe that this victory was won against country has bestowed its greatest honors odds equal to any that Nelson overcame, Ithought Iought to take the risk which even at Abouklr, which is called bis belongs to them.” masterpiece, or at Trafalgar on the In aletter home from the Red river he Victory, when he received bis mortal wrote: “Yon say you think Lam getting wound, too ambitious. You do me great injustice. How nnconsclously Farragut reveals ■... Iam much more apt to lose than his reverent and modest nature when he to win honors by what Ido. God knows writes of this unparalleled victory“The that there is not amore hnmble individual Almighty has smiled on mo once more.” than myself. Ishall go to church to¬ Again he wrote home‘ As Itold you morrow, and try to return suitable on the fifth, it pleased God to grant me thanks for the many blessings that have one of the hardest earned victories of my been bestowed upon me. life over the rebel ram Tennessee Before Mobile he wrote: “My dearest God bless you and make you thankful for wife: Iwrite and leave this letter for this victory as Iam.” you. Iam going into Mobile Bay in the As aNaval fighter Farragnt’s prowess morning, if God is my leader, as Ihope was most conspicuously displayed, as He is, and in Him Iplace my trust. If Nelson’s was, against seemingly over¬ He thinks it is the proper place for me to whelming odds, and in the most critical die, Iam ready to submit to His will, in m o m e n t s o f b a t t l e . that as in all other things. »> This power to act promptly and effect¬ At the attack on Mobile Farragnt’s ively in acrisis is pointed out by Rear leading ship began to back, obstructing Admiral Hamilton of the British Navy in bis line and silencing the batteries of the his observations on the action of Mobile: Union ships while the whole of Mobile “It appears to me that adisastrous de¬ Point was aliving flame. feat was converted into victory by (in so Farragnt hailed the backing ship with unexpected acontingency,) the quickness “What’s the trouble?” K To r p e d o e s ” w a s of eye and power of rapid decision Far- ' the reply. ragut possessed, which saw at aglance Like an 'electric flash Farragut cried. the only escape from the dilemma the ItBlow the torpedoes! Four Bells! Captain fleet were placed in, and which can only Drayton, go ahead 1Jouett, full speed!” be acquired by athorough practical andjthe; Hartford pushed forward to the knowledge in the management of fleets, head of the line, thus averting failure and for want of which no amount of and defeat and leading on to victory. theoretical knowledge, however desirable The Confederate ram Tennessee was in many respects, can make np in the deemed impregnable. She was shot at, moment of difficulty.” rammed and hammered by the Brooklyn, Invaluable as experience was to Farra- the Lackawanna, the Monongahela, the Kut, it was the motive force of faith in Kennebec and the Oneida without effect God and the faculty to do his work, that and then she retired under the guns of enabled him to ntlllze his experience and Fort Morgan. made him so formidable in war. Compare him with our modem Sir Farragnt cheered hls men In war with Joseph Porters, the men who acquire words of pious but sanguine exhortation. their nautical skill by sticking fast to their-desks, and when the breezes blow, Nelson led hls desperate crew. In per¬ son, to the battle that made him an generally go below; such merely ambitions Admiral, with the cry. "Weatmlnster men who travesty every age and beg to Abbey or Victory!” adorn themselves with the titles and Fairagut’s words suggest the spirit of trappings of rank while they amuse aChristian knight. the thoughtless with punch and Judy Nelson’s cry suggests the spirit of a antics. buccaneer. This type of man has been described by As aChristian knight Farragut died agreat authority on heroes, as one who here in your own city after he had heard struggles to “force everybody, as It were the thanks and praises of hls countrymen begging everybody for God’s sake to and toe kings, emperors and princes of acknowledge him agreat man, and set the Old World had done honor to hls him over the heads of men !Such a virtues and those achievements that shed creature Is among the wretchedest sights so much lustre on hls country’s flag. seen under the sun. Agreat man ! But though Ihad the talent of aBos¬ Apoor, morbid, prurient, empty man 1 well to embalm the glory of Farragnt In Fitter for the ward of ahospital than for literature Imust not detain you. athrone among men ! Who shall do Justlce to the memory of How such mean, tyrannical, selfish men OM rugged sea-king ?Who can paint pale into Insignificance before the blazing hls virtues ? whiteness of Farragut’s character I He did not bid for applause. He did “To5guard atitle that was rich before, Togild refined gold, to paint the illy, not beg to be set on apedestal becanse be To throw aperfume on the violet. paraded In acocked hat. His heart and To empoth the ice, or add another hue mind were absorbed in unselfish thoughts Unto:he rainbow. afliectlng the welfare of hls conntry. He Is wastetttl and ridiculous excess.” was content with the operations of his As we tom from the portrait of Far¬ own genius in obedience to the dictates ragut our thoughts will revert not to the of conscience. Hls self-denial, hls single¬ ness of purpose in the accomplishments blue and gold that adorned hls form, but of hls great achievements, raise him to to the man within, to the spirit of good and patriotism that was hls crown- - the level of the grand, masterful heroes Ing glory. We love the man for what he of history. was. For unrivalled nautical skill: daring enterprises; fearless. Intrepid action; In¬ "For others shape the marble form. exhaustible fertility of resources In battle, The molten image oast; But paint him in the bnltle storm, Farragnt and Kelson bear comparison. Lashed to hls flag-ship's mast. In reverence, serenity, patience, hu¬ manity, prudence, sagacity, fidelity; in Now then your broadsides shipmates all, the intricacies of diplomacy and the ele¬ With grape well loaded down I May garlands filled with sunshine fall ments of statesmanship, Farragut’s supe¬ To gird hiB silvered crown I riority to Nelson must be conceded. Igive the name that fits him best— As we read hls letters we can Imagine Ay, b e t t e r t h a n h l s o w n — The sea-king of the sovereign west that, had Farragnt been apriest and stood Who made hls mast athrone.” In Luther’s place when the Devil intruded hls revolting person to interfere with his Immediately after toe conclusion of work, Farragnt, like Luther, would have Comrade Smith’s address. Commander flung bis inkstand at Hls Satanic Majesty In full faith that the missile wonld have Curtis again arose and in behalf of Storer bean guided by an overruling Power Post made the following straight to some vital spot, as the smooth Address of Prasentetloa. pebble of David went to the brain of the Philistine of Gath. Ladles and ,The Gentlemen: three So, had Farragnt stood as aboy beside cardinal principles of the organization Casablanca, he would have perished at hls known as the Grand Army of the Republic post with the same fidelity that distin¬ are Fraternity. Charity and Loyalty. guished biro on the Essex. To preserve toe memories of awar Like Cromwell he entered Into battle which has settled for all time toe per¬ with sublime trust in an overruling Prov¬ manency of the union of states and the idence and with acalm but Indomitable supremacy of national government; to resolution that carried him forward tri¬ renew the fraternities of acomradeship umphantly and reslstlessly over the most cemented In camp, bivouac and battle; to formidable obstacles. relieve the necessities of distressed sold- 20 lers and sailors and the widows and Adjataat R e m a r k s . orphans of those who yielded up their AdJaUnt Bessellevre, then stepped lives on the alur of their country; to forwtrd and read the official extracts of otey the laws of the land; to inculcate the Post concerning the portraits, as fol¬ lessons of loyalty and patriotism in the lows: generations to come after ns, that eqnal itAt aregular meeting of Storer Post, rights and national nnlty shall forever be held on the evening of Oct. 1, 1890, the malnuined, are the objects of our associ¬ following resolutions, offered by Comrade ation. Joseph Foster, were nnanlmously adopt- The crowning principle Is Loyalty. ed: It Is for this that on each recurring Resolved. That. Storer Post, No. 1, Denart- springtime the survivors of that once vast meniofNowHampshire, Grand Army of the army. In every village and hamlet of onr Republic, gratetuily RcEnovrledges the cour- country, strew the graves of the patriot tety of the Hoard of Mayor and Aldermen of dead with the choicest of earth's flowers; tne CUy of Portsmouth In adopting the names of our Poitsmouih signer of theDecUration for this, above their countless mounds. In of Indepen'tence, and of America's great Ad. sunshine and storm, is kept waving the miral, lor the two new school houses, as eug- starry emblem of the nation, rescued and gesteil by the Post; and congratulates the Hoard upon the general satisfaction and ap- restored by loyalty; for tnls, on hillside pioval with which these names, so closely and plain, throngbout the length and connected with the history of our country breadth of our fair land, rise memorials and so full of lessons of manly heroism and patriotic devotion, have teen received by our in bronze, granite and marble, object citizens. lessons of loyalty for all coming time. Resolved. That acopy ol the foregoing Oentlemen:—It Is tor the perpetuation resolution bo offloially forwarded to the Board of this principle that Storer Post has of■Mayor and Aldermen, and acopy be fur¬ presented to every school building in onr nished the city press. city, the beautiful flag of our country, On Oct. 16,1890, it was voted that the with the hope that the daily sight of Its Post present oil portraits of General star-emblazoned folds may Incite in the William Whipple and Admiral David G. youthful beholder, patriotic ardor, a Farragut to the schools bearing their desire to learn the story of the sacrifice of names. life, limb, and treasure to preserve It, and adevotion to maintain the principles On Nov. 19,1890, the following resolu¬ for which It stands. And if you will tion of Comrade Joseph Foster was nnan- pardon me, it is for this that Storer Post Imonsly adopted. has long hoped and still hopes, that the Resolved. That the Committee on Enter¬ tainment be instructed to arrange with the collection of valuable war pictures and celebrated portrait painter Mr U. D. Tenney portraits which adorn the walls of Grand of Concord, N. H., to paint suitable oil poi> Army hall, and the many hlstorip relics traits ot Gen. William Whipple and Admiral David G. Farragut for the Post; to have the being constantly gathered by onr organ¬ paintings properly framed and suitably ization, and of which this grand old city m a r h e J w i t h n a m e a n d b y w h o m p r e s e n t e d , Is so rich In store, may some day, while and dale, on aseparate tablet or otherwise; we are yet on this side of the eternal and when they are completed to arrange for their publlo presentation by the Post, through camping ground, be gathered into ame¬ jts commander, to the City ol Portsmouth; to morial hall where forever they shall tell be bung in the room occupied by the senior the story of our country’s rise and pro¬ class at the Whipple and Farragut schools res ely, as long as the school houses gress more eloquently than tongue or pen. shall stand. For this. Gentlemen of the City Govern¬ ment, we memorialized your predecessors Commander Curtis resumed his address, to designate the new school structures a s f o l l o w s : by the names of those illustrious patriots of different eras, of whose distinguished Fraaantatloa Addrasa Oontlmiad. lives Comrades Foster and Smith have so eloquently spoken. The foremost portrait artist of New That onr petition was speedily, heartily, England U. D. Tenney painted them and nnanlmously granted is amatter of and is proud of his work. No expenditure glorious record, of pride to our citizens of time, money or skill his been spared and extreme gratification to Storer Post; to make them the best obtainable. Mr. and to show the appreciation of my com¬ Tenney could tell yon of visits to New rades, Iwill call upon Comrade Charles York at the expense of the Post to H. Bessellevre, Adjutant of the Post, to examine the celebrated portraits of Ad¬ r e a d e x t r a c t s f r o m t h e r e c o r d s o f t h e miral Farragut in the rooms of the Union meetings of Oct. 1, 15, and Nov. 19, 1890. League, University Club, and that la the Ihave the pleasure of introducing to possession of the family ot Loyal Farra- you Comrade Charles H. Bessellevre, Ad¬ gnt, son of the Admiral, all of which jutant of Storer Post. were nnsatlsfactory, and how, finally, a 21

8mBll portrait In the poaeeeslon of the It now gives me much pleasure to Intro¬ government, from which waa engraven duce John J. Laskey, Mayor of Ports¬ toe vignette on the new 4100. treasury mouth. note was found, and judged to be tue best likeness, by those most familiar with The Mayor’s Raaponso. the Admiral In his later years, in existence. From this picture the artist obtain¬ Mr. Cbairmau, Ladies and Gentlemen, Commander Curtis, officers and com¬ ed the foundation for the splendid portrait r a d e s ; before yon. The color of hair, eyes, clothing and These portraits, the gift of Storer tinting of flesh are pronounced absolutely Post, for which we thank you, Iaccept in perfect, by those best qualified to judge. behalf of the city to be placed in the The portrait of Geueral Whipple la school buildings bearing their honored from that In the possession «f Alexander names. H. Ladd, Bsq., of this city, by Mr. Ten¬ General Whipple, soldiers know, how ney, from the original painting by he led the army to victory; history tells Trumbull, of the signers of the Declara¬ n s s o . tion of Independence, in the possession Admiral Farragnt, sailors know, bow of Yale College, and Is considered by he led his fleet to victory wherever boats connolsenrs amasterpiece in portrait could go. No braver man oh land or sea pslntlns. can any nation show. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen:—My com¬ Gentlemen of the Board of Instruction, rades seek not honor, glory, popular by request of Storer Post their gift now p r a i s e o r f a v o r I n t h i s n n d e r t a k i o g . the property of the city Ileave with The exuberance and enthusiasm of youth you. have not prompted their action. It is The brevity of His Honor’s address was rather from the calm Judgment of men personified terseness, and bappilv ex¬ who have seen their country rent and pressed the sentiment of the community com and nearly dismembered by treason; in receiving such elegant tributes to who marched into the jaws of death to patriotism and heroism. preserve the heritage transmitted by their His presentation in turn to the district fathers, and who know the value of the committees of the Board of Instruction fmlts of that great struggle, and would was equally brief and felicitous, and gen¬ seek to bestow them as leeacles on their erously recognized by the audience. children and their children’s children. Men die and their deeds are forgotten; but principles live forever. If from Aooeptano* by th* Sohoola. this night’s action the youth of Ports¬ Eev. Henry E. Hovey was then intro¬ mouth are Incited to aereater degree of duced, and in behalf of the Whipple loyalty to country and afirmer fidelity to school received the portrait which is the duties of citizenship, we shall have to occupy acommanding position tbereifl. found ample reward. H i s r e m a r k s w e r e a s f o l l o w s : And now, Mr. Mayor, in the name of Your Honor the Mayor, Gentlemen of my comrades of the Grand Army of the the City Government, Children, Gentle¬ Bepublic, representing as they do the men of Storer Post, Ladles and Gen¬ soldiers and sailors of this city who de¬ tlemen :It is the very agreeable duty fended the authority and Integrity of the placed upon me by the chairman and Nation, Ipresent through you, to the members of the committee In chance, to City of Portsmouth, for the school build¬ speak in behalf of the Board of Instruc¬ ings bearing their names, these portraits tion and accept. In their name, for the of General William Whipple and Admiral Whipple school, this splendid portrait of David Glasgow Farragnt. the great and good man for whom the s c h o o l i s n a m e d . Chairman Berry then arose and In these The hour is late and Ihave observed brief words made that the “sandman” is beginning to sprinkle alittle of his sand in some of rntrodnotloa of tba Mayor. these bright eyes here before me, and moreover so much has been said and so Ladles and GentlemenIt now be¬ well said that Iam sure It will comes my duty to call upon His Honor Bulfice If Ishould simply add that these the Mayor to accept in behalf of the City, children will not and cannot forget this at the bands of Storer Post, and to pre¬ inspiring occasion, and that this portrait sent to the Board of Instruction, these banging upon the walls of their school two beautiful gifts which have been so will be, for generations to come, some¬ eloquently bestowed upon us this evening. thing to cheer them up to duty, to exhibit 2^ to them dally an llluHtrious example of whose life and work have been so faith¬ all that Is good and noble, as we have ful yand ably treated by Pay Inspector heard from the eloquent words of Pay¬ Smith this evening. On account of the master Foster, to quicken them in pa¬ lateness of the hour allow me In afew triotism, and to tire their hearts with words to thank yon very heartily for burning zeal and affection for their dear this elegant gift, which yon have en- native land. God grant it so. Amen. entrnsted to onr keeping. Then A. P. Wendell on receiving the This closed the delightful exercises of portrait for the Farragnt school spoke as the evening. follows: Flaale. M i T O R L a s k e y : Sir:—In receiving from yon this valua¬ All honor and glory to the pioneer Post, ble portrait of the great hero Farragnt G. A. R., of New Hampshire for Its noble which has been presented to the city by and successful efforts in secnring for the Storer Post, Ifeel adeep interest and two new school houees these elegant responsibility as representative of the portraits. The old comrades have indeed Board of Instruction and the district in been blest with endnring fires of which this painting Is to be located and patriotism. These latest efforts of their Ipromise that the same shall be carefully zeal In anoble, because educating cause, placed upon the walls of onr building and finding happy consummation in last where it can be seen by the teachers, night’s double bestowal, is atriumph of scholars and all who enter onr school, a which they may well feel proud. constant reminder of the noble patriot {Timet, 21 and 23 November, 1891.) ADDENDA

nEI.ATING TO The Whipple and Farragut Portraits, eENERAi iraiFPin ancestors ail JAMES iDSSELL lomi.

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— Y O B T H E — Wbipple and Farragut Scbools’ William Whipple, of Portsmouth, N. H. Portrait Fund, Signer of the Declaration of Indepeinienoe. A.T bMlTJSIO HAX.3L., Born'1730 -Died 1785. Presented by Storer Post, No. 1, G. .\.R.—1*91. TUESDAY,IStll HOYEMBER, 1890. (Tablet.) Part 1. 1. Overture, National Airs David Glasgow Farr.\gut, I.aBbie’s fuLi. Orchestra. Admiral, U. S. Navy. 2. Song,, “Songs should Breathe’' S e l e c t e d c h o i r o f t w e n t y v o i c e s f r o m t h e Died at Portsmouth, N. IT., Aug. 14, 1870, JC69. scholars of the Whipple and Farragut schools, under the direction of Professor Presented by Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. R.—1891. George D. Whittier. (Tablet.) 3. Recitation, Independence Bell M i s s E t h e l G b e e n . 4. Song, Selected Mozart Glee Club. STOKER POST. Cornet Solo, “Silver Stream Polka, It Rollinson George M. Aykhs. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Portsmouth, N. H., having Part 2. adopted in September, 1890, the names of 1, Intrixluction of the Lecturer, by Captain General William Wbipple and Admiral Charles C. Carpenter, U. S. Navy, Presi¬ David Glasgow Farragut for the two new dent of the evening. school honses, in compliance with the ●2. Lecture on the Cruise of the Kearsaige and suggestions of Storer P.ist, as fully relat¬ herFight wlih the Alabama, by Pay In¬ spector Joseph A. Smith, U. S. Navy, ed In the Appendix to “The Presentation then paymaster of the Kearsavge. of Flags to the Schools of Portemonth, N. H., October 9, 1890, by Storer Post,” Part 3. Portsmouth, 1890; at areenlar meeting 1. Overture, “Light Cavalry, Suppe of the Post beld October 15, 1890, it was LaBrie’s Fdll Obchistra. voted that in acknowledgment of this 2. Song, “ F r e e d o m ” courtesy the Post presfnt oil portraits of Scholars of Wlilpplo and Farragut Schools. 3. Recitation, “Ballad of New Orleans, General Wbipple and Admiral Farragut to Boker the City for the schools bearing their MISS -Alice M. Sides. names. 4. Song, Selected Mozart Glee Club. The Entertainment. It was decided to give an entertainment Tickets of admission, 25 cents. For sale by scholars of Whipple and Farragut schools, by to defray the cost of the portrait"*, and comrades of Storer Post, and at the stores of the matter was placed in the bands of a Mercer Goodrich, M. M. collis, and W. H. cimmlttee, consisting of Thomas Kennedy, Smith, on Market street, which by paying 1* or 2.5 cents additional, according to the loca¬ chairman; Joseph Foster, secretary; Mar¬ tion of seats, can be exchanged for reserved cus MCollls, treasurer; and Meshach H. seats on the morning of Friday, November Bell, William Crltchley, Joseph RCurtis, ]4th, from »to 12 o’clock, at the hox-ofilce at Music Hill, and afterwards at Goodrich’s Obarles N. Osgood, Henry S. Paul and Bookstore. Jefferson CTilton, members; who on the Doors open at 7.80 p.m. Entertainment to evening of November 18, 1890, gave the c o m m e n c e a t 8 p . m . s h a r p . lollon log entertainment. (Advertisement, Timet, 11 November, 1890.) 24

The same happy fate awaited the Tbrilliig Story ot ibe War of Mozart Club, which came back at the persistent demand of the andience, to repeat the last verse of Hartel’s song “I theRebellion. think of Thee.” Mr. George M. Ayers’ comet solo, “Silver Stream Polka.” found ready appreciation, and he, too, was How Ibe Kearsarge Vbipoed tbe forced to retorn, but only to give the finale of the Polka in response. The curtain rose upon the second and principal feature of the evening, as the actors in the great war drama, about to be A G a l a N i g h t f o r S t o r e r P o s t , depicted, filed in and took their seats. Between Capt. and Commandant C. C. O. A. R. Carpenter, U. 8. N., veteran of the great rebellion, and Capt. Arthur R. Tates, U. 8. N., one of the heroes of Mobile Bay The stage at Music ball last evening with the Immonal Farragut, sat the lec¬ presented apiciure of rare historical turer, Pay Inspector Joseph A. Smith, U. interest to one conversant with the 8N.. Paymaster of the Kearsarge. Be¬ stirring events of the civil war of a hind and near these gentlemen sat the fol¬ ([uarter century ago, and which would be lowing named survivors of the great hard to duplicate. The large gathering in naval battle, who drank-in tfceir comrade’s the ball bad assembled to enjoy ihe liberal words and lived over again that never-to- programme provided by Storer Poet, In be-forgotten day ;Wiliam Y. Evans, Ly¬ an entertaloment whose proceeds are to man H. Hartford, Martin Hoyt, True W. be applied to the purchase of portraits of Priest, Thomas Salmon, John W. Tnung Admiral Farragut and Geu. William [all of Portsmouth, and] Lyman P. Spin¬ Whipple for the schools bearing those ney [of Klttery]. names. Tbe object commended Itself so Capt. Carpenter In well chosen words thoroughly to everybody that arepresen¬ intro need his fellow officer, which tative Portsmouth audience leerly filled service Pay Inspector Smith repaid by a the bouse, paniueite and gallery. preliminary statement that the com¬ On the stage right, supported upon an mandant had been acting as bis under¬ easel was the historic picture of Farragut study with aview to lecturing in bis, the in the shrouds at Mobile bay, faulty in paymaster's default. one detail, the conventional naval frock The lecturer read from his notes, which coat being displayed instead of the fiannel he remarked, in explanation, had been bit use which he wore when Capt. Dray¬ abbreviated somewhat from the original. ton sent Watson up to pass aline around His matter was rich in phrase and expres¬ me old hero as asafe guard. On me left sion, hU delivery finished, graceful and was shown an oil painting representing eloquent. _ the memorable action betwi en the Kesr The writer failed to catch any mention serge [built at the Portsmouth navy yard of Captain James 8. Thornton’s name In 18G1] and the Alabama ofiT Cherbourg [who as Lieutenant Commander wasexecn ● on that glorious Sunday morning [19 live officer of the Kearsarge at the time June, 1864] so many years ago. These of the fight. Captain John AWinslow, were accessories to the central picture yet being In command,] although aposition to CO cue; but before which was given a under the gallery may have b*-en the pleasant entertainment, prepared by th** cause. Thornton was abonsehold word Post coma.utee, as the skilled culsinler in Portsmomh, and his memory here is prefaces the greater work of his hands by ever green. An idea of the regard in appetising approaches. which be is held might have been An overture, or rather apot pourri of g a t h e r e d f r o m t h e s t o r m o f h a n d s a n d NailoEal airs by LsBrle's orchestra gave feet at the mention of the name of the the keynote, followed by afour part sodu, lamented and heroic Commodore Charles iITectlvely given bv achorus of lads and W. Pickering [of Portsmouth,first captain lassUsfjom the Whipple and Farragut of the Kearsarge.] schools, directed by George U. Whittier, The lecturer was frequently applauded their teacher. Miss Ethel Green gave a and he was accorded the most perfect at¬ spirited recitation, “Inderendence tention. The address fulfilled the highest Bell,” with such tff. ct that are¬ expectations of the audience and earned call was Insisted upon, to which she for the speaker an added laurel well de¬ responded with “Sheridan’s Bide,” earn¬ served and freely bestowed. In closing ing another reward from the house. bis allusion to aprominent figure in hht 25 address was pointed and effective; it was prlDclpnU of the Whipple and Farraent this: "Alabama”—Here we rest. soDools for their a^slfltanue; to Mr. LaBrle, the orcbe-tra, and the Mozart Glee clnb, Of the concluding exercises space for¬ for their zeal on this rccaslnn; and to all, bids meutloD, with the exception of the who, by their presence at the entertain- inert, aided the Post In Its purpose ot pre "Ballad of New Orleans,” amasterly serting oU pomalts of onr Fortsmonth recitation by Miss Alice M. Sides, lianer of the Declaration of In

Bk801.vbi>. That the srrateful aoknowledg- ■Ireceived apamphlet from aome one ■ menta ot Storer Post, No. 1, Qrand Army ot contalnlDfc an acconot of the presentatioo the It* pablio. Department of New Hampshire, be presented lo James Bnasrll Lowell ol Cam- of tne FIsrs to the schools. It was quite bridRf, Mass., *'wbo is fitly ranked todav as IntereailDg and Iwas glad to read the the first citizen of our republic, because of What be has done for the mind and soul of handsome compliment pild to my father America, and becanse of wliat bo is In hin>- by one ifhis old officers. sel», above all his works," to bis sister, Mrs. Very truly yonra. Maty Lowell Putnam, and to his niece, Miss L o t a i x F a k r a g u t . G>-oreina Lowell Putnam, both of Boston, for their nnd gifts of twenty dollars each In aid of onr "Whipple and Parrugut seboots poriralt New York, Dec. 12th, 1890. tnnd,"and for their synyiathy witn the Post, Paymastek Joseph Fostbb, U. S. N. thereby shown. In Its to oberlsn the historical memories ol Portsmouth, and to Mt Dxab Sir Isaw anew one hun¬ Inspire our chllrren and children’s children dred dollar hill yesterday with the engrav¬ with the love of home and country, by pre¬ senting oil portraits of their near kli.snian, ing of my father, and 1think UIs quite 6ei eral William Whlpole ol Forttmouth, good. It seemed to me that It was an im¬ s i g n e r o f t h e Declaiatlon of Independence. provement on the naval pension checks and of Admiral David G. Karragut, U8. N, which make the Admiral verv sum hero of New Orleans and Mobile bay, to tne s c h o o l s r e c e n t l y n a m e d I n t h e i r h o n o r a t t b e In appearance. Ihardly think they are- suggestion of the Post. from the same die. ... Resolved. That acopy ot these resolutions Very truly yonrs, be torwar. ed to Mr. Lowell, ana to the ladies; and that acopy be famished to tbe press, as Loyall Farragdt. an additional proof of onr appreciatlou of theb'kindness and good will. T r e a s u r y D e p a r t m e n t , (Post, 18 December, 1890.) Bureau of Engraving and Printing, - December 6, 1890. O t h e r C o B t r l h n t i o n s . Mr. Joseph Foster, The total receipts at the Entertainment Care Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. R., held November 18tb, 1890, were «278 60 Portsmouth, N. H. (of which $60 was from tickets sold by Sir In reply to the Inquiry made in scholars of the Whipple 8chool,and $61.75 your letter of the 29th of November, I from tickets sold by scholars of the have to say that tbe portrait of Admiral Farragnt school), and the expenses were Farragnt In use by this Bnrean was en¬ $96.10, leaving tbe net receipts $182.40. graved from aphotograph furnished by In addition to the $60 contributed by Mrs. Farragnt dnrlng tbe lifetime of tbe Mr. Lowell, his sister, and niece, $20 Admiral. was presented by alady of Portsmouth Respectfully yonrs, who desired to remain unknown, and $6 Wm. M. Mersdite, by Eev. E. M. O'Callaghan, in token of Chief of Bnrean. their Sympathy, and good wishes; and these, with other contributions by mem bers of the Post, and the profits of the MnniolpBl Affairs. Entertainment of November 18th, 1890, The board of Mayor and Aldermen . covered all expenses. held Its regular meeting last evening, c. October 1st, 1891. ... Admiral Farragnt’s Portrait. The following communication wasTe^ The following letters In relation to the celved from Storer Post, G. A. R: standard chosen for the portrait of Ad¬ miral Farragnt will be found of Interest. Headquarters Storer Post, No. l, G. A. R., 113 East36th St., Department of New Hampshire, New York, Nov. 28ih, 1890. Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 21, 1891. Paymaster Joseph Foster, U. S. N., To tbe Honorable Board of Mayor and'' Mt Dear Sir Appreciating the honor Aldermen of tbe city of Portsmouth, N. w h i c h S t o r e r P o s t d e s i r e s t o c o n f e r o n H.: my father by presentlns bis portrait to Gentlemen—In acknowledgment of tbe tbe Farragnt school at Portsmouth, Ibeg courtesy of the city government of Ports¬ to state that tbe two most satisfactory oil mouth la adopting the names for the paintings are to be seen at tbe Union Whipple and Farragnt schools suggested League Club and University Clnb of tbis by Storer Post, the Post has bad oil por¬ city The latter Is probably tbe best. .. traits of General Whipple and Admiral I f t h e a r t i s t e v e r c o m e s t o t h e c i t y I Farragnt painted for presentation to the shall be very glad to show him tbe picture city to be hong In tbe rooms occupied by in the University Clnb, of which Iam a the senior classes at these schools, and ●< member. respectfully aeks In whatmaniuir It wiUi ba«w- 2^ i- most agreeable to yonr honorable body to Mon and Storer Post, G. A. R., appointed 'have the plctnres presented. for that purpose, cordially invite you to Eeepectfnlly, be present at Music Hall, and take aseat Joseph R. Curtis, on the stage, on Friday Evening, Novem¬ Mkshach H. Bell, ber 20lh, 1891, at 745 o’clock, to partic¬ W i l l i a m C r i t c h l k y, ipate in tbe presentation of the Oil Por¬ Joseph Foster, traits of General Wbipple and Admiral Charles N. Osgood, Farragut by Storer Post to the City of Henry 8. Paul, Portsmouth, for tbe schools bearing these Jefferson C. Tilton, names. Respectfully, Comnaittee. Charles P. Berry, Chfdimaii. WiLUAM H. Moore, Secretary. The above was referred to committee on school houses. The following notification was sent to (.Times, 2October, 1891.) the members of Storer Post: Two members, Marcns M. Collis and Headquarters Thomas Kennedy, were absent from the Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. R., meeting of the Storer Post Committee Department of New Hampshire, when the foregoing letter was prepared and signed. Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 18,1891.. Comrade;—You are requested to be Oaneral Commlttaa. present in fall uniform at G. A. R. Hall on Friday evening, November 20th, inst., at The committee on school houses of the 7o’clock, for the purpose of presenting City Councils, consisting of Aldermen tbe Oil Portraits of Gen. Whipple and Charles jc’. Berry, W. AA. Cullen and Admiral Farragut to the Schools bearing Ira C. Seymour and Councllmen Robert their names; presentation to take place in W. Phinney, John Frizzell and Samuel M u s i c H a l l . Maddock, duly authorized for tbe pur¬ Per Order, p o s e , f o r m e d w i t h t b e c o m m i t t e e o f Jos. R. Curtis, Commander. Scorer Post ajoint committee; to which C. H. Besseuevre, Adjutant. acommittee of five members of tbe Board of Instruction, Rev. Alfred Gooding, Rev. Henry K. Hovey, Major David Urch, and Messrs. Andrew P. Wendell and William H. Moore, and Superintendent of Schools Charles^. Morss, were added. This General Committee, of which A1 derman Charles P. Berry was chairman, made all arrangements in relation to the presentation of the Portraits of General Whipple and Admiral Farragut to the <● city. Invitations to the City Govern¬ ment, Board of Instruction, Ex-Mayors The Whipple Family. -of Portsmouth, and other special guests, to participate in tbe presentation at Music General William Whipple, of Ports¬ mouth, N. H., signer of the Declaration Hall, were sent in the following form. of Independence, was born January Uth, The general admission to the Hall was 17S0, in Kittery, Me. He was the son of free. Fall details of the ceremonies have Captain William Whipple, senior, of already been given. Kittery, grandson of Major Matthew City Rooms, Portsmouth, N. H. Wbipple* of Ipswich, Mass., great grand¬ November, 16, 1891. son of Captain John Whipple, and great- Dear Sir The General Committee of great grandson of Elder John Whipple, the City Government, Board of Instmc- both also of Ipswich.

*Major Matthew Whipple, of Ipswich, Mass., grandfather of General William Whipple, Is stated In the Appendix to “The Presentation of Flags to the Schools of Portsmouth, N. H.,” Portsinouth, 1890j)age 20, to have been agrandson of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich (brother of Elder John wbipple), through his son John. As both brothers, Matthew and John, had sons John, “these three Johns are grievously oonfonmded by most writers who have noticed them,” and following the authority there quoted the mistake occurred. It Is now corrected on the authority of ascarce pamphlet, entitled “Abrief Genealogy of the jle Family,” compiled by John H. Boutelle of Woburn, for Oliver M. Whipple, Esq., of Lowell, Mass., Lowell, 1857, where “the earlier generations especially have been traced through, and several Important points, hitherto wrongly printed, are now satisfactorily In- ■vestlgated,” as stated in the "N. E. H. G. Register," vol. XI, page 860. In Easland, (wbo were then “Pastor,” “Kallsg Elder” and “Teacber” of the First Cbnrch at The Whipple family in this conctry Ipswich —“Felt’s Ipswich,” pages 169, undoubtedly descended from Matthew 220,222); and that of “John Hawkings Whipple of Rocking, county Essex, Eng¬ of Brayntree, Essex. Gent., 3September, land, aclothier. Will of December 19tb, 1633, proved 18 October, 1633,” devising 1616, probated January 28tb, 1618, men¬ 44to my brother Francis Hawhins, my sis¬ tions son Matthew, son John, daughters ter Archer and my sister Whipple forty Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Anne [Amce?], shillings apiece as remembrances of me; Johane, Amye; ‘my sister, wife oi Richard of which abstracts are also there given, Battabone; Hercntes Stephens, grandchil¬ “relate undoubtedly to the family of dren Hercules and Margaret Arthur, and Whipple In Ipswich, Massachusetts, de¬ Henry and Anne Coldbam [CaldhamJ’. scended from two brothers Matthew and The two brothers, Matthew and John, John.*9 wbo were settled at Ipswich some time before 1638, were probably the sons men¬ “Mathewe Whipple the elder of Bock- tioned above. They settled at the ‘Ham¬ Ing, Ess(>x, clothier, 19 December 1616, let.’ now the town of Hamilton. John proved 28 January 1618. was adeacon or ruling elder of the First My capital messuage or teuement, with Church. He was freeman 1640, and rep¬ the yards, gardens, orchards, members resentative for eight years between that and appurtenances, situate in Bradford and 1663. Ry first wife he had children— Street in Rocking, now in the occupation Mary, John, Susanna, Sarah, and prob¬ of me the said Mathewe, from and after 99 ably others. my decease shall remain to Mathewe (“N. E. H. G. Kegister," Vol. XLH, pp. 99-lOP.) Whlppell, mine eldest son,upon condition In this connection it is worthy of note that he shall pay or cause to be paid to that Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, minister at my son John Whlppell fourscore pounds Ipswich from 1638 to 1656, was curate at within three months next after my decease, Rocking from about 1626 to 1631. and to my daughter Jane thirty pounds Rev. Nathaniel Rogtrs, born at Haver¬ within six months, and to my daughter hill, England, In 1598, “became curate to Elizabeth thirty pounds within twelve Dr. Barkham, at Bmking, In Essex,” months, and to my daughter Mary thirty about 1626. <«Having served at Rocking pounds at one and twenty or day of her four or five years, he was called to marriage, and to my daughter Amis thirty Assington, in Suffolk, where he preached pounds at one and twenty or day of mar¬ fi v e y e a r s m o r e . H e r e h i s l a b o r s w e r e riage, upon reasonable demand made by abundantly successful. But teeing that the said Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, and Amye. be contd not dntlfully subscribe ‘the To my daughter Aroce (?) six silver Articles of Visitation,’ and that astorm spoons of the better sort, two high latten of persecution was about to overtake him, candlesticks, my biggest brass pot and three pounds six shillings and eight he concluded to flee to New England ... pence. After along passage he arrived at Boston, In November, 1636, .... He was invit¬ To my daughter Johane forty shilliogs. ed to settle at Dorchester; bnt as those To my daughter Jane two silver spoons, who came wi^h him could not be accom¬ two pewter platters of the greater sort, one pewter candlestick, one half headed modated there, he chose to come with them to Ipswich. Here he was ordained bedstedle, my best flock bed, aflock bolster, acoverlet and apair of blankets. pastor, February 20, 1638. He died IIJuly 3, 1656, aged 67.” To my daughter Elizabeth twosflver spoons, one pewter candlestick, two ("Felt’s Ipswich,” Cambridge, 1834, pp. 21fr-231.) pewter platters of the greater sort, ahalf- beaded bedstedle, next the best, aflock The following full abstract of the will bed, aflock bolster, acoverlet, apair of of “Mathewe Whipple the elder of Rock¬ blankets and the little chest which was ing, Essex”, (which is two miles north of h e r m o t h e r ’ s . Braintree, in the same county), is taken To m y d a u g h t e r M a r y t w o s i l v e r from the “Genealogical Gleanings in spoons, two pewter platters and apewter England”, by Henry F. Waters, in the salt, atrundle bedsteadle, aflock bed, a “N. E. H. G. Register,” Vol. XLIV, page flock bolster, acoverlet, apair of blank¬ 889. Mr. Waters says that this will and ets. the will of “John Amies of Bockin, 7 To m y d a u g h t e r A m y e t w o s i l v e r April, 1647, proved 16 April, 1647,” giving spoons, two pewter platters, apewter, (I the piece of cloth at home unto Mr. salt, atrundle bedsteadle, aflock bed, a Rogers, John Whiple and ajerkin cloth flock bolster and apair of blankets. of it to Mr. Norton of Ipswich, N. E.” To my son John aJoyned table ,and 29 frame standing in my old parlor (and 1647, to John Annable, tailor.—J. B. other movables ) Fait.) His will, dated 3m. 7d., 1646 [of To my sister, wife of Richard Rath- which an abstract Is printed in the It bone twenty shillings. To Hercules Antiquarian Papers,” Ipswich, Mas? , Stephens ten shillings To mv grand¬ April 1834], is on record at the Keirister children Hercules Arthur, Mafgaret o f D e e d s f o r t h e c o a n t y o f E s s e x , l a Arthur, Henry Caldham and Annie Cald- which he mentions his eldest son, John, ham six sbllliugs eight pence apiece. To sons Matthew and Joseph, and daughters the poor of Booking twenty shillings. [ M a r y — s e e a b s t r a c t ] A n n s a n d All the rest to my son Matthew, sole Elizabeth. He leaves to bis eldest, John, executor. Parker, 2. one half of his estate; the other half to B. H. G. Segl-,ter," Vo). XLIV, p. 389.) bis two youngest sons Matthew and Joseph. He left wife Bose (Chute?), It Is said In the Virginia branch of the whom he married (Nov. 13, 1646 ?). His Whipple family, that ahistory of the children were by aformer ^ife. He died family from the time of William the Con¬ September 8, 1647. 99 queror down to the time of Col. John ("A bnol Oenealogy of the Whlpnle Whipple of Prince Bnpen’s division of family,” Lowell, Mass., 1857, pages.) the Cavaliers, who emigrated to Virginia In 1662, can be found in the ancient E l d e r J o l m W h i p p l e . Library at Birmingham, England, where Elder John Whipple, great great grand¬ the Dugdale and Thorpe MSS. are depos¬ ited, which manuscripts give afall ac¬ father of Geneisl William Whipple, “re¬ count of the aristocratic Colonial families, sided at the Hamlet [part of Ipswich, and were collected by O. P. B. James now Hamilton, Mass.], and was Deacon while British consul at Norfolk, Virginia. and Ruling Elder of the First Church. [Edward Johnson (In his “Wonder-Work¬ This history relates, It is further said, ing Providence”, London, 1664, reprinted that the Whipple family originated with In ● * Massachusetts Historical Collec¬ Henri De V: Hippie, agentleman of Nor¬ U tions”, 2d series') “mentions Mr. Whipple mandy of the Vale de Suere (or Vale de Suede). For his gallantry he was grant¬ CVol. I'V.,page26), “as ‘one, whose godly ed the manorial estates of Wraxall—tak¬ sincerity la much wpproved.’”—“Felt’s Ips¬ wich,” page 169.] He and his brother Mat¬ ing the name of Wraxall. Eicbard Wrax¬ thew sustained varions offices of trnst. all—that Is, Bichard de V: Hippie—was He was born about 1606 [or earlier—see knighted on the battlefield of Aglncourt, >9 and given the motto; ‘’Fidele et Brave.” above] Leaving Wraxall on account of persecu¬ He “had alarge grant of land in 1639, tion, the name of De V: Hippie was re freeman In 1640 ”[He “was Deputy to the General Conn 1640—1642, 1646 Burned, which iu the time of Henry VII. 1650-1653," “Felts Ipswich,” page 169 ] (1486-1509), was anglicized Luto Whipple. He had two wives, [Sarah (wife of In Amerloa. John Whipple) who died June 14, 1658, stated In “Felts Ipswich” page 169, to “We learn that there were three of the have been the wlie of Elder John Whip¬ name of Whipple who settled early in ple, was probably the wife of bis nephew , New England: Matthew and John (born John,—“Whipple Genealogy”, pp. 4, 13] about 1606), brothers, settlnd in Ipswich, h i s c h i l d r e n w e r e b y h i s fi r s t w i f e . H i s in that part called the Hamlet, since will is dated May 10,1669; bis son Cornet it Hamilton [If these two brothers are John, Executor. <1 identical with Matthew and John Whipple, He left awidow Jennett (first hus¬ sons of Matthew Whipple of Bocking, band Thomas Dickinson) whose will Is England, good reasons for believing on record at the Probate Office, Suffolk, which have been given, both were doubt¬ Vcl. 11, page 85, and children John, less born earlier than 1606; Matthew must Susannah, reiict of Lionel Worth, Mary have been of age In 1616 when appointed Stone, Sarah Goodhue, and Anthony Pot¬ exeentorof his father’s will, and was there¬ t e r, s o n - i n - l a w. ” [ “ S a v a g e ” a d d s a fore probably born several years before daughter “Elizabeth”, who, be says 1696. Matthew died September 8, 1647, “married perhaps Anthony Potter.”] and John died June 30, 1669, ages not Sarah, jnst mentioned, “married Jo¬ known.] The other, named David, seph Goodbne [of Ipswich], July, 1661, settled in Bbode Island on abill called died July 23,1681”. [She was born In 1641, Study Hill [Vo connection between him the youngest daugnier of Elder John 49 and the Ipswich family has been traced] ' Whipple, and her well known pious Matthew Whipple settled early In valedictory to her husband and children, Ipswich Hamlet: (Land was granted to first primed at Cambridge, New England, him In 1638. His bouse was sold July 10, in 1681, was reprinted at Salem, Maas., in 1770, and again in the “Antiquarian General Denison. [Major General Dan¬ Papers,”Ipswich. Mass., December, 1880, iel Denison ot Ipswich, born in England and Jannary, 1881 ] in 1612. who died Sept 20,1682, in Ips¬ Elder John Whipple “died Jnne 30 wich, was for eleven years Major Gener¬ 1669, and his Inventory Is on file at the al of the colonv, and very prominent In Fro Date office, Essex, presented by his colonial aflalr>.—See “Denison Memorial, son Cornet John Whipple (afterwards Ipswich, Mass ,1882.] She died Sept. 12, Capt. John Whipple) September 28, 1728, In her sixtieth year. Mr. Whipple 1669”. left children, Matthew, John, William, ("Whipple Genealogy,” pp 8-4,2940.} who was of Kltlery In 1730, where his son William was born, who was asigner Captain Whipple. of the Declaration of Independence and

«4 Brigadier General at the capture of Bnr- John Whipple (Captain), [John] born goyne;—Joseph, settled in the ministry at about 1626; died August 10, 1683; sou of Hampton Falls, and Martha Hartshorne. Elder John Whipple. He was sometimes 91 He had amalt-house and oat-mlU, In called Jnnlor, Cornet, and Captain. which he carried on ranch business. To [He was freeman 1668, and “Representa- his mulatto servant be gave freedom. He live 1674,1679—1683”.-“Savage.”] “He bequeathed his house and lands to was appointed aCaptain of atroop to Matthew and John. Estate £3600. He march for Marlborough against the ene¬ held several offices in the town« was my, &c. His prospects for honor and Justice of the Sessions Court, l^pre- nsefnlness were promising at the time of sentatlve in 1718, 1719, 1729. He was an h i s d e a t h . ” “ H i s e s t a t e w a s v a l n e d a t energetic, useful and respected towns¬ £3000.” He married first Martha Reyner man.”—“Felt’s Ipswich,” Cambridge, 1834, (a daughter of Humphrey Rpyner) born pp. 176-177.) , died February 24, 1679; second. Elizabeth Palue. Jane 28, 1680. »> ("Presentation of Flags," p. 20.) Children [all by first wife]. John C4 Matthew Whipple (Major) born 1668, (Major) born July 16, 1657, married June died, aged 80, Jannary 28, 1738-9 [above 26, 1681, Catharine Layton, who died mentioned], son of Captain John, and Augnst 16, 1702, aged 62, he died Jnne 12, grandson of Elder John, ...married, 1722 Matthew, born 1658. Joseph, born first, Joanna Appleton, by whom he bad March 6,1664, dieo in Infancy Augnst 1665 children, Matthew, John, Joanna, Apple- Joseph (20) bom June 8. 1666. Snsan, ton and William. He afterwards married, married Lane [Snsanna, married June 10, 1697, Martha Binge (or Rlndge?) John Lane, March 20, 1680,—“Savage”]. [Martha (Denison) Thing] born . d i e d , Sarah, born September 2, 1671, married aged 60. Sept. 12, 1728, ...[and bod Francis Walnwrlght March 12, 1686, died children] Joseph, Martha and Nathaniel. 99 March 16,1709. aged 38. Anna, born Oc¬ IIHis will Is at the Probate Office, Essex tober 29, 1676 (?) County, in which he mentions sons, Mat¬ ("Whipple Genealogy,” p. 80.) thew, Appleton, John, Joseph, William, “Captain John Whipple, son of ‘Elder’ and his dwelling honse [and] malt house, John, born in Essex, England, abonl 1626, item. Mary Bradley, house beeper. Item. ...was appointed Cornet of the Ipswich Mulatto servant, Nicholas Freeman, &c-, Troop before 1676 [1663—“N. E. H. G. Dec. 2, 1738.” Register,” Vol. XXXVII, page 286] and Children.—Matthew. John, bom July Captain In 1683 In place of Capt. John 22, 1689, married Hannah ,died, aged Appleton. He was Lieutenant In Capt. 92, Febraary 9, 1781. Joanas, born July Paige’s Troop at Mount Hope, June, 1675 22. 1692. Appleton, born October 19, [King Philip’s War], and was appointed 1693. William, boro Febroary 28.1695-6. Captain of atroop raised for service un¬ ...Joseph (Rev.), boro July 31, 1701, der Major Savage In March, 1676 [In the and settled at Hampton Falls (graduated same wa--]; was with the army in the nn- at Harvard University). [FH e w a s “ o r - Buccessfnl manoeuverlng of that cam¬ dained at Hampton Falls, N. H., January »» «» paign. 15, 1727,” and “died February, 17. 1767. ("N. E. H. G. Register,” Vol. XLll, p. K'O.) “N E. H. G. Register," Vol. XIII, page 305.] Martha, horn January 7,1704, Major Matthew Whippla* died In Infancy January 30, 1704. Na¬ thaniel, boro Sept. 2, 1711. II Matthew Whipple, [John, John—see ("Whipple Genealogy,” pp. 8142.) page 27] of the Hamlet, died Jannary 28, 1739, In his eightieth year. He Joanna (Appleton) Whipple, grand¬ married [second —see below] Martha, mother of General William Wbipple* waa daughter of John, and grand daughter of the daughter of Samnel Appleton, (2d), 81

son of Bamael' Appleton, (1st), both of was mortally wounded by his side, De¬ Ipswleh. cember 9. He served as Major in an Salmael Appleton (1st) was the son of expedition against the Narragansetls, and Thomas Appleton, of Little Waldingfleld, bad the command of five hundred men In county Snffolk, England. (“ SaTage.”) the great battle. His skill and bravery Samuel Appleton, [1st] died June, and exertions did much towards securing 1670. He was born at Little Waldiog- victory. While in this campaign, he had fleld, England, 1686; came to Ipswich his tent burnt, and his men lost their 1686, was admitted freeman 1636, and clothes and arms—His diversified and was Deputy to the General Court 1687. complicated duties, as awarrior, legisla¬ He left children, John, [a prominent tor, and judge, he ably and faithfully dis ■ citizen of Ipswich, born 1622, died 1700, charged.” ( “ P e l t ’ s H i s t o r y o f I p s w i c h , ” C a m . (or 4November, 1699, according to “Sav¬ bridge, Mass., 1834, pp. 169-160 and age"), Representative to General Court for ■169.) sixteen ;ears between 1666 and 1678, “The first husband of Martha Denison whose opposition to the Illegal taxation o f G o v e r n o r A n d r o s i n 1 6 8 7 , f o r w h i c h [above mentioned] was Thomas Wiggin II [son of Andrew and Anne (Bradstreet) he was Imprisoned fined and dis¬ franchised,” is well known—see “Felt," Wiggin], who was bom 6March, 1662. page 171],Samuel, Sarah,wife of the Rev. He was agrandson of Gov. Thomas Wig- Samuel Philips of Rowley, Judith, wife gin, also of Gov. Simon Bradstreet. Mr. of Samuel, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Wiggin died in early manhood, leaving bnt one child, Hannsb. Rogers, and Martha, wife of Richard ,, Jacobs. Widow Martha (Denison) Wiggin then II became the second wife of Capt. Jonathan Samuel Appleton [2nd], son of Samuel Thing, of Exeter [N. H.]. They were Appleton [1st], died Aneust 16,1692. He married July, 1693, and haa but one child, was bom at Waldingfleld in 1625. and Daniel Thing, born 12 May, 1694. Capt. probably came to Ipswich when his father Jonathan Thing died 30 [or 31] October, did. He married Hannah, daughter of 1694; his first wife was Mary, daughter WDllam Paine, and for his second wife, of Counsellor John Gilman, son of Edward Mary, daughter of John Oliver of Gilman, sen’r. He had two other sons, Newbnry, December, 2, 1656, she being Edward and Moses. born June 7, 1640, and died June 9,1712. Her third husband was Matthew Whip¬ [He was born In 1624, married, second, 8 December, 1666, Mary Oliver, the mother ple, of Ipswich. (‘'Antiquarian Papers," Ipswich, of Joanna (Appleton) Whipple, and Mass., June, 1883. i-ee also ‘‘Peni- died 15 May, 1696.—“Savage.”] son Memorial," Ipswich, 1889, pane He left children, Samuel, John, Judith 47, and‘‘Bell'S Utsiory of Exeter." Wolcott, Joanna Whipple,and Oliver. He Exeter, N.H., 1888, Genealogy, p46.) had lost adaughter Downs, whose only child was Isaac. He held several offices Captain WilllaiB Whipple, Baalor. in the town, was Representative to the General Court in 1669, 1671, 1678 1675- William Whipple, senior (Matthew, 1677,1679, 1680. He was of the Govern- John, John), born 28 February, 1696-6, oPs Council in 1681-1686, 1689-1692; Jus¬ the fathfr of General William Whipple, tice of the Quarterly and General Sessions was anative of Ipswich, In Massachu¬ Courts, and of the Court of Oyer and setts, and was bred amaltster. Having Terminer, April 11, 1692, for the trial of removed to Kittery In Maine, he followed the sea. during several years. He married persons charged with witchcraft. [“Res¬ *> olute in support of the liberty of the peo¬ [14 May, 1722—“N. E. H. G. Register, ple against the unlawful taxation in 1687, Vol. X, paae 48] Mary [born 26 De¬ he was imprisoned by Andros, and hardly cember, 1698—“Presentation of Flags,” released. See ‘Hutchinson*, I, 866.”— page 21] the eldest daughter of Robert Savage.”] He w a s c o n c e r n e d i n Cott [2d] the Iron-works at Lynn in 1646, Her grandfather, Robert Cutt [1st] was though Ipswich became his permanent abrother of John Cutt, the President of residence.—1676, Oct. 23. The Assistants New Hampshire, and emigrated from write him to keep five hundred men for England to the West Indies, where he the defence of the frontier towns at the married awealthy widow, who dltd soon after. He then married Mary Hoet west against the Indians. In thl-> quarter »» he was several times successful in repel- [Mary Hoel—“Presentation of Flags, ing -the enemy and preventing several page 20], an English lady, who bad places from being consumed. When removed to the West Indies. Soon after Hatfield was attacked, October 19, abul¬ their marriage they came to Portsmouth, let passed through his hair, and aserjeant New Hampshire, and subsequently re- 32

moved to Kittery, where Mr. Cott estab¬ agreeable mauners, and many pleasing l i s h e d a s h i p - y a r d , a o d c a r r i e d o n t h e accomplishments. [He died 7August, bnsloess of shlp-bolldlBg very extenslve- 1751, aged 56 years. She died 24 Febru¬ Iv. They had two sons, Richard and ary. 1783, aged 84 years.—“Presentation Robert, and fonr daughters. [The of Flags”, p»ge 22 ]They had five chil¬ daughters were Mary, Budget, Sarah and dren; William. Robert, Joseph. Mary, Elizabeth. Richard was probably the son and Hannah [Mary, William, Hannah, of Robert Oatt (1st), by his ttrst wife. Robert Cutt, and Joseph]. Sometime sabseqaent^^ 1675, the widow [1 ]Mary Whipple, me eldest daugh¬ of Robert Cait married Capt. ter, married Robert Trait [Traill]', Es¬ Francis Champernowne, “the loving quire, comptroller of the port of Ports¬ nephew” of Sir Fernando Gorges the mouth previous to the Revolution. They founder of Maine, and she and, her had three children, Robert, William and children by Mr. Catt received by gift or Mary: Robert and William went to demise the principal part of Capt. Europe, where they settled; and Mary Champernowne's estate.—See “Presenta¬ married Kleth Spencer [Keith Spence], tion of Flags,” pages 20-21 and note E-qulre, amerchant from Scotland who page 339, ‘● Historical Papers,” C. W. s e t t l e d i n P o r t s m o u t h . C a p t a i n R o b e r t Tattle, Boston, 1889. T. Spence, their son, holds [1824] adis¬ It is related. In anot wholly reliable tinguished rank in the Navy of the United traditionary account (see page 34) found States. among the papers of Col Joseph Whipole, [Mary, “born 13 Januarv, 1728” [or brother of General William Whlp.ile, and perhaps later] married Robert Trail printed in the “N. E. H. G. Register,” [Traill] of Boiton, 1September. 1748.— Vol. V. page 246, that Robert Cato (1st) “N E. H. G. Register,” Vol X, page 48. was anative of Ba h, England, and that She survived her husband and “died 8Oc¬ his father was, the year he died, a tober, 1791, aged 61” [as stated on her member of Parliament. Richard Cult gravestone] —“Presentation of Flags, was returned from Essex, for Cromwell’s page 21 “ second parliament, In 1654, but not for [2.] William Whipple, born 14 Jan¬ that of 1656 ] uary, 1730—“Register,” X, 48—died 28 Robert [Robert Cutt (2d)] married November, 1785 ;the Signer of the Dec¬ [18 April, 1698, —“Presentation of laration of Independence.] Flags,” page 2i] Dorcas Hammond, the [3 ]Hannah Whipple, the youngest daughter of Major Joseph Hammond, daughter, married the Hon. Joshua Brack¬ whose father, having been an adherent ett, au emlnen; physician in Portsmouth, of Oliver Cromwell, left England who, during the Revolution, was judge on the death of the Protector of the maritime court of New Hampshire. .[who died 3September, 1658], came Her mother. Mary Whipple [Mary (Cult) to this country and settled la Kittery Whipple], resided with her after the death [Seepages!]. They had four daushters; of her nusband, and died 1783, at the Mary, the wife of William Whipple advanced age of elghty-flve years [See [.senior]; Catharine, who married John above], Moffat, amerchant, who then [Hannah, born 15 February, 1734-5; resided at Kittery, bat afterwards married Dr. Joshua Brackett, of Ports¬ removed to Portsmouth; Mehltable, mouth. 14 April 1760. He was horn In who married Jotham Odiorue, mer¬ Greenland, N. H., May, 1733 and died in chant of Portsmouth; and Elizabeth, Portsm inth 17 July, 1801 [1802].—“Reg¬ who married the Rev. Joseph Whipple, ister,” X, 48. They had no children. the brother of William Whipple [senior], She died 24 April, 1805, aged 71.—“Presen¬ and who settled in the ministry at Hamp tation of Flags,” nags 21 ] ton Falls. [4 ]Robert [Robert Cntt Whipple] Mr. Cutt possessed alarge estate, and died when he was about nineteen [twenty- his daughter, Mrs. [William] Whipple five] years of age. [senior], inherited irom him avery [Rooert Cutt, born 6April, 1736; died 4 valuable farm in Kittery, situated on the May, 1761, aged 25 -“Register” X, 48.] eastern branch of the Piscataqua river, [6.]—Joseph [Whipple] was educated In opposite to the island where the Navy the counting room of Eathaniel Carter, Yard Is now established, and within view amerchant of Newbury port, and establish¬ of the town of Portsmouth. Mr. Wnlp- ed himself in business In Portsmouth, In pie now abandoned his nautical pursuits, company with his brother: they continued and resided on this estate, which he held their mercantile connection until ashort in right of his wife, where he employed time previons to the commencement of himself as afarmer and maltster. Mrs. the revolutionary war. He was after¬ Whipple was alady of excellent sense. wards appointed collector of the port of 33

FortBmoDih, first by Ue state of New shown only afew months since by the Hampshire, aud after the adoption of the kindly and generous gifts of Mr. Lowell, federal conslhutlon, by the President of and of his sister aud niece, Mrs. and Miss the United States: he held this office, Pntnam. in aid of the fond for the oil por¬ with ashort Intermission, ontll afew traits of General William Whipple and months before his death. He died wlih- Admiral David G. Fajragnt, soon to be ont Issue, on the twenty six'h of presented to the Portsmouth schools February, 1816, In the seventy-eighth bearing those names, by Storer Post, No. jenr of hts age. 1, G. A. R. ,of this city. [Joseph, born 14 Febrnary, 1737 8; James Rnssell Lowell, born 22 Feb¬ married Hannah Billings of Bo'tun, 9 ruary, 1819, in Cambridge. Mass ,sob Ociober, 1762. He was collector of the of Rev, Charles and Harriet (Spence) customs In Portsmouth—* R>glster,”X, Lowell, was grandson of Keith and 48. Col. Joseph Whipple took part In Mary (Traill) Spence of Fonsmontb, and the early settlement of Coos county. New great-grandson of Robert and Mary Hampshire, and was living at Jeff rson as (Whlpple)Tralll, also of Portsmouth. early as 1773. He was captured there by Robert Traill, born In the Orkney Islands, the Indians during the Revolution, but was adtstingntshed merchant of Ports¬ escaped.—“McCllntockV H'story of New mouth, comptroller of the port until the Hampshire,” Boston, 1889, pages 306-307 RevoIntioD, and afterward collector of He afterwards returned to Portsmonth. the Island of Bermuda. He resided la When “Col. Joseph Whipple was the house then and now standing at the Collector,” he “tran*acted the bnsinfss la south iiest corner of State and Fleet the office adj dnlng his residence on State streets (No. 82 State street). Mrs. street.’■—“Hambies,” I, 227. He “resided Traill survived her hasband, and died in the bouse then and now standing at the 3October, 1791, aged 61 years, ihelr northeast corner of State and Chestnnt only daughter, Mary, married Keith 12 streets, Portsmouth '(No. 79 State S') Spence, amerchant from Scotland, who Eananb, wife of Coi. Joseih Whip¬ settled In Portsmouth, Parser, U. S. N., ple, died 30 Jannary, 1811, aged 76 years. 1800-1806, whom she survived, and died —“Presemailon of Flags,” page 21 ]” 10 Jannary, 1824, aged 69. i“Biography of the SltO'ors to the Mr. Lowell’s great grandmother, Mary Declardllon of Ip'’ependence.” ( W h i p p l e ) Tr a i l l , w a s a d a u g h t e r o f Pbliadelt hia, 1824, Vol. V., pp. 75 77. Captain William Whipple, senior, and Two Interesting letters on public Mary (Cntt) Whipple. The latter died 24 matters from General William Whipple to Fehuary, 1783, aged 84, and the ashes of Hon. Joslah Bartlett (who long served of Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Traill and Mrs. together In CoDgr<^ss), dated Pi'rismonih, Spence, three direct ancestors of Mr. July 12, and Sep'ember 13, 1778, will be Lowell, rest in the North cemetery, Ports- found In the “N. EH. G. Register,” Vol. month, where their stones may be seetr XXX, pages 317-820. on the rising ground near the center of the cemetery close to the stone of their distinguished son. brother and uncle, General William Whipple, slener of the Declaration of Independence. Captain William Whipple, senior,, r e s i d e d I n t h e “ W h i p p l e g a r r l s o m Jies limW LoiGll. house” In K'.ttery, Me., previously the home of Robert Cott 12d)',, where Harrison J. Fhllbrlck now His Postamonth Anoeatora. lives, and died 7August, 1761, aged 66 Capt Whipple’s stone and those of It is apleasnre to the many admirers of Hubert Cntt (2d), who died 24 September, James Russell Lowell In Portsmouth to 17.35, aged 69, and of Dorcas (Hammond) know that several generations of the ma¬ Cntt. who died 17 November, 1757, aged ternal ancestors of this most eminent poet, 83, his wife’s father and mother, are yet essayist and statesman, whose receit standing In the cemetery near the Cham- death, 12 Angnst, 1891, in Cambridge, pi-rnowne Hotel In Klttery, so that a M a s s , h a s b e e n m o u r n e d w h e r e v e r t h e pilgrimage to the graves of these four English language Is spoken, resided on generations of Mr. Lowell’s ancestors the banks of the Piscataqua, and that he. may, and doubtless will be often made In and ad of bis faibr-r's family always had the coming years by those residents in, astrong interest In the Portsmouth stock and visitors to our city, who enjoy the from which they sprung. writings and rejoice in the fame of this That this Interest was areality was dlstingnished son of Portsmouth, 84

Captain William Whipple, senior, Ibe pobllshed by Cecil Hampden Cults (Mauhew, John, John,') was bom la Ips- Howard of Brooklyn, NY. wlch, Mias., whiiher his great grand- J o s f p h F o s t e r . father Elder John Whipple came from (Journal, 5September, 1891.) Essex, Eoglano, In or before 1639 [Cor¬ rected—seepage 27], and the Whipples The foregoing article, with afew un- Iimportant, changes, was also printed in were Ipswich peop e, as related more at Ithe “Magazine of Atnerican Hlstorv” for length In the biographical nol’ce of Gen October, 1891, Vol. XXVI, pages 312-313. erai William Whinple, In the appendix to “The Presentation of Flags to the Schools of Portsmouth, N, H., October 9, 1890,” Additional Notes. Portsmouth, 1890, page 20 [and on pages Dorcas (Hammond) Cntt, born in 1074, 27-33 of this pamphlet], wife of Ribert Cutt (2d), was the daugh¬ Robert Cutt (2d), however, was of this ter of Majt.r Jo.seph Himmood, Kittery, locality, son ot Robert Cutt (1st), who 1680, horn 1647, died 24 February 1709-10; was abrother of John Cutt, Pfr.sldent of who was the si.n of tViUiam Hammond, New Hampshire, 1679, who with their of Wells, Maine, 1050, or earlier, aman brother, Richard Cuir., came to this vicin¬ of consequence, grand jaror, next year ity previous to 1646 from Wales, as re¬ clerk of the writs, and commissioner for lated, with much other Information as to small causes until 1679. said to have been the Cutt familv, in the “Rambles about born la 1697, died 1702. Major Joseph Portsmouth” Series I, page29, and Series Hammond was probably the major cairied II, pages 142-153, and concerning whom prison, rby the French, 1696, to Canada, further interesting details will be found a s ‘ ‘ H u t c h i n s o n , ” Vo l . I I , p a g e s 8 9 a n d on pages 20 and 21 of the pamphlet just 180, tells; and counsellor of Massachu¬ mentioneo. setts. He left one son and two daughters. Robert Traill Spence, appninled mid¬ Catharine, wife of Major Joseph s h i p m a n , U S N , 1 6 M a y, 1 8 u 0 , w h o d l s - Hammond, was the daughter of Nicholas tlDgul.shed himself mth- attack on Frost, born about 1695 at Tiverton, In Tripoli, 7Augu-t, 1804, as related In IDevonshire, Eoglano, who came to “Cooper's Naval History,” and who died Kiuery, pr.-bably before 1632, and died 20 acaptain, 26 September, 1826, was a July, 1663; she was born In England, brother of Mr. Lowell’s mother. coming to America with her lather and Madam Elizabeth (Cutt) Lowell, whose mother, and married first, about 1656, William Lelght.on of KUtery, who died stone stands In the North cemetery near that of General Wpipple.was the General’s September, 1666. and, second. Major Joseph Hammond, whom she outlived; 4iunt, his mother’s sister, and ihedaugh and died 1August, 1715. ter of Robert (2d) and Dorcas (Hammond) Col. Joseph Hammond, brother of Dor¬ Cutt. She was “b irn 20 March, 1710” (or perhaps earlier), and married, first. cas (Hammond) Cult, di“d In Eliot, Rev. Joseph Whipple, of Hampton Falls, Maiae, 26 January, 1763, aged 76. ("Savage's Genealogical Pletlon- brother of Captain Wil iam Whipple, ary.” Boston, l88u, Vol II. pp. 21‘J, senior, and second. Rev. John Lowell, of 345, and 3(74148, Hnd Vol. Ill, p44. Newburypnro, Mass., whom she also sur¬ see also ‘‘N. £1. H. G. Rtglsier," Vol. vived, and “died 22 September, 1805, aged IX, p.312.) 97,” as stated on her gravestone She left The information concerning the n o d e s c e n d a n t s . ancestors of Dorcas (Hammond'l Cntt Rev. John Lowell, minister of New- given in the “Rambles about Ports¬ bnrvport. Mass., 1726-1767, who died in mouth,’’ series II, pages 145-146, Is not 1767, aged 63, (a descendant of Percival exact; and the ststeraent In the “N. E. L(Well, of Bristol, England, who settled H. G. Register,” Vol. V. page 246, that In Newbury, Mass., In 1639, and died there M a j o r J o s e p h H a m m o n d ' s f a t h e r in 166.0,) was father

Mr. Iiowell’s Maternal Aaoeatora. was aprisoner In Tripoli dnriog the at¬ tack of 7AugU'it 1804, In which his son To THE Editors of the Critic aistln^uirhed hlniieir, as already men- James Russell Lowell and the Rev. Rbert tloned. He died suddenly at New Or- T. SLowell were not eraudsons of Rob- leans, and was burled there, ert Traill Spence, an off! er of the Navy, |The Hon. Carroll Spence of Baltimore, as Btateil In ...‘'Appleion’s Cyclopedia Maryland, appointed Minister to Turkey of American Biography” (Vol. IV., page 'by President P‘erce, and who negotiated 43) In Its notice of the Rev. Charles the first treaty with Persia, is ason of Lowell; bnt were Capt. Spence’s nephews, Cant Spence; and the late Commodore the children of his sister Harriet (Spence) rharles Whipple Pickering, D. S. N., of Lowell. Portsmouth, N- H[son of Laac and Capt. Robert Traill Spence, U. _8. N.. Louisa Josepha Whipple (Spence) Picker- was appointed aMidshipman 15 May, |ingj, was his nephew; both consios ofj. 1800, Lieu'enant 17 Febrnary, 1807, Com- Rand RTS. Lowell. ... mander 24 July, 1813. Captain 28 Fehru-1 In the study of heredity, the female line ary, 1816, and died, 20 September, 1820— is often, as here, amine of wea'tb. aged 88 years. H« olBiingulshed himself Joseph Foster. as aMidshipman dnrlng the attack on Portsmouth.. N. H,Sept., 1891. Tripoli, 7August 1804, ilnl.shing the load¬ (The Critic, New York, 10 OcCi ber, lf91.) ing and firing the long 26 pounder, of wnlch he was in charge as his vessel sank Hi* Paternal Anoealora, u n d e r t h e e n e m y ’ s fi r e , a s r e l a t e d I n “Cooper’s Naval History.” New York, James Russell Lowell “was of the 1 8 6 6 ( V o l . I , p a g e 2 4 6 ) . S e e a l s o eighth generation [of the Lowells] in “Goldsborough’s Naval Chronicle ”Wash this country .... The Rev. John ington, 1824 (Vol. I., page 228), and Lowell [of Newburyport, Mass.], James “Lessing’s Pictorial Field-Book of the Russell Lowell’s great granufaiber,»» War of 1812 ’(page 121). He was highly [already mentioned on page 34 ] praised by Commodores Preble aid Deca¬ being the son “of Ebenezer Lowell of tur for his gallant condnct. He rose very Boston, shoemaker, and grandson of John raiddly In the Navy, and in Commodore Lowell of Boston, acooper The last Rger’s report of September 23, 1814, In named Jobn of Boston was the son of relation to ibe services of the navsl of John Lowell of Newbnry, and grand¬ forces dnr'tig the British attack on Balti- son of Perclval Lowell, ..who more In 1814, was spoken "f as agallant came from Bristol [Euglano] to Newbury and meritorious officer. (See also “Coop¬ i n 1 0 3 9 . » er ’s History,” Vol. n., page 139) He (F. L, Gay. of Brookline, Mass , was aman of great Information, and a The Critic, New York, 29 August, 1891.) ●good writer both In prose and poetry. He was In command of the naval estab¬ The Commemoration Cdo. lishment at BaUimore for several year? before bis death, and is buried in Loudon ((All win now admit James Russell Park cemetery near that city. Lowell to have been the author of the Capt. Spence's father (Mr. Lowell’s fin-st single poem yet produced In this gra dfather), Keith Spence of Ports¬ Country, the ‘Commemoration Ode’.” mouth, N, H, Purser, US. N,1800^05, (The Critic, New York, 22 August, 1891.) ‘a gentleman justly held la high estima¬ tion for his probity, Intelligence, and In the study of Mr. Lowell’s character nice sense of honor', ‘was the bos< m and works, It Is worthy of remembrance friend and mentor of Decatur’ (“Golds- that Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of borough’s Chronicle,” Vol. I, page 228) Cambridge, Maes., James Russell Lowell’s H e w a s P u r s e r o f t h e f r i g a t e literary executor, says, that “many of P h i l a d e l p h i a , w h e n t h a t v e s s e l w a s the most striking traits of Mr. Lowell’s -capiured by the Tripolitans. 31 October, character and genins came to him from 1808 (“Cooper," Vol. I, page 225), and h i s m o t h e r ’ s s i d e . NOTICE.

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