Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

224 RIAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
England, he vacated the house and moved into Deer street,
where he resided till his death, leaving his house in State
street in the occupancy of his son.
On the opposite corner of Chapel street was a two-story
gambrel-roofed dwelling house in the form of a T, fionting
on State street, the easterly end of which was owned and
occupied by Capt. Gregory, the grandfather of Mr. Albert
Gregory. The western end was owned by Major William
Gardner, and occupied by Mark Chadbourne, hatter, Benjamin Drowne, gold and silver smith, Joseph Clark, gold
and silver smith, George Ham, watchmaker, Joseph Akerman, Jr., collector of taxes, and others at different periods.
After the decease of Capt. Gregory, his widow was
distinguished as an instructor of small children. With the
aid of her two daughters she furnished for several years
the shipping of this port with their colors and national flags.
Next was the one-story shop of Mr. John Beck, hatter,
whose daughter was the wife of Mr. Mark Chadbourne.
IHe was the father of the late Henry Beck.
Next to the hatter's shop was a large two story gambrelroofed house owned by Major Gardner, connected with a
two story store endwise on the street. This IMajor Gardner
disposed of when he purchased: the estate of Ichabod
Nichols, Esq., in Gardner street, who removed to Salem,
Mass. The house in State street, after Major G. left it, was
occupied by Capt. Gilbert Horney, and at the time of the
fire by Mr. Phillip W. Currier. The store was occupied by
Mr. George Dame, limner, as his studio, from which point
of view he painted a very striking likeness, (full stature)
of Benjamin Rowe Quint, a tall man who resided in Newington, but who frequently was employed as a stone mason,
in building cellars and laying stone side pavements. At
that time he was laying stones in front of the dwelling
house of Capt. Timothy Mountford, nearly opposite. The
position of the painter's subject was that of a stooping