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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

LANGDON FAMILY. 57
were royalists and went home, but Capt. Joshua Sands, once
written Sandys, of the American navy, who knows all about
them, is his great grandson. Joseph, their third son, lived
near Witch Creek, and has two or three hundred descend.
ants, though hardly any named Langdon, some of them at
least the eleventh generation of English colonists at Witch
Creek, counting Gibbon and his wife for the first: Mark,
the fourth son, was a tanner at the south end: Samuel,
their fifth son, married with a Jenness in the south part of
tye, where his gravestone is by the road, and died there
young, of the locked jaw, a making shingles: William was a
tanner at the north end, their sixth son; and his son William,
also a tanner, many people remember, a very good looking, and a very worthy man. John, their seventh son, lived
and died on the homestead. He married Mary Hall of
Exeter, her mother a Woodbury of Beverly, her father the
-son of Kinsley Hall of Exeter and Elizabeth Dudley, the
daughter of Samuel Dudley, who has numberless descendants in New Hampshire, who was the eldest son of the
great puritan Thomas Dudley of the Bay.
John and Mary Langdon had six children, Mfary Langdon,
Woodbury Langdon,#John Langdon, Elizabeth Langdon,'Martha Langdon and Abigail Langdon. Mir. W.oodbury
Langdon and Mr. John Langdon were well known people.
Mary married three husbands in Maine-: Storer, Hill and
*MaeCobb; Elizabeth a Barrel of Portsmouth, a royalist,,
Abigail a Goldthwait of Boston, also a royalist, Martha
another Barrel, next a Simpson, and lastly Governor James
-Sullivan of Massachusetts Bay.
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