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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

50 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
hold to him the said Samuel and to his heirs and assigns
forever.
Lastly. —I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint
Theodore Atkinson.and Hunking Wentworth, both of
Portsmouth in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid,
Esquires, to be the Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby impowering to see the same duly executed
according to the intent and design thereof. In testimony
whereof I have signed and sealed the same. Done at
Portsmouth this fifth day of February, Anno Domini one
thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, 1765.
SAMUEL SHERBURNE. [L.S.]
in presence of Theodore Atkinson, jr.
Samuel Hale, Joseph Bass.
This Will was proved 18th day of Feb. 1765.
Edward Sherburne, one of the sons of the Hon. Henry
Sherburne, at the commencement of hostilities in the revolutionary war repaired to Cambridge and entered as a
volunteer in the service of his country at his own expense.
Soon after he became Aid to General Sullivan. At the
evacuation of Boston, the army being ordered by General
Washington to New York, he proceeded thither at his own
expense, and was in all the battles in New Jersey. When
the army evacuated New York in consequence of the
enemy taking possession, the army was ordered to Philadelphia. At the battle of Germantown he was severely
wounded. While carrying orders in front of both armies
he received the wound of which he died. The General
commended him much for his bravery, and said much to his
family in praise of his general character. He spent most
of his property in the service.
There are several other branches of the first Sherburne
family of Portsmouth -from one of which Judge John
S. Sherburne descended - from another the late Col. John
N. Sherburne descended — and from another the late Joseph