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- Title
New Hampshire Land Grants Made to The Wentworth Governors' Friends and Relatives.
- Abstract
The article discusses New Hampshire towns named after English friends and family of New Hampshire colonial rulers Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth and governors Benning Wentworth and Sir John Wentworth. It notes that the towns of Deering and Francestown were named after Frances Deering Wentworth, the wife of Sir John Wentworth. The New Hampshire towns of Holles (or Hollis), Newcastle (or New Castle), and Claremont commemorate the English Secretary of State Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle and Earl of Chicester. The author also notes that Addison, Maine, and Addison, Vermont were both named after English essayist and poet Joseph Addison.
- Subjects
FRANCESTOWN (N.H.); DEERING (N.H.); CLAREMONT (N.H.); NEW Castle (N.H.); ADDISON (Me.); ADDISON (Vt.); NEW Hampshire; VERMONT; WENTWORTH, Frances Deering; NEWCASTLE, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768; ADDISON, Joseph, 1672-1719; COLONIAL New Hampshire, ca. 1600-1775
- Publication
Historical New Hampshire, 1950, Vol 6, Issue 2, p5
- ISSN
0018-2508
- Publication type
Article