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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

60 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
III. Dea. Mark and Mehitabel Langdon had Joseph, born
1724, died Oct. 30, 1749.
III. Wm. and Sarah L. had William, born 1748, died Sept.
30, 1820; m. Mary Pickering, who died Feb. 8, 1802, aged
52. John, born 1748, died May 21, 1789; m. Mary Evans,
died Mar. 10, 1825, aged 61. Mary m. Nicholas Pickering.
III, John Langdon married Mary Hall; had Mary,
in. Storer, Hill and McCobb. Judge Woodbury Langdon,
born 1738, died Jan. 13, 1805; m. Sarah Sherburne. Gov.
John, born 1738, died Sept. 18, 1819; m. Elizabeth Sherburne. Elizabeth m. Barrel. Abigail m. Goldthwait. Martha, m. Barrel, Simpson and Gov. James Sullivan.
IV. Capt. Samuel and Hannah L. had Mary, born April
16, 1751, died 1836; m. Joseph White. Maj. Samuel, born
June 9, 1753, died July 5, 1834; m. Lydia Brewster,
daughter of Samuel Norris, died May 21, 1840, aged 62.
Anna born Nov. 3, 1755, died May 24, 1690; m. James
Whidden. Rev. Joseph L. born May 12, 1758, died July
27, 1824; m. Dec. 9, 1790, Patience Pickering, died April
8, 1846, aged 88. Elizabeth, born March 18, 1761, died
1831; m. Andrew Sherburne. Hannah, born June, 1766,
died 1812; m. Edward Gove.
I. Capt. Samuel Banfield died 1743; m. Mary Seavey,
who died 1753, and had Mary, who married Capt. Joseph
Langdon.
The monument to Mr. Langdon's family ancestors is not
confined to the burial enclosure. Around the sitting room
of the mansion, displayed under glass in frames, are the military commissions of his fathers for four or five generations,
signed by Gov. Belcher, Gov. Wentworth, President Weare
and Gov. Langdon. It is a novel collection, exhibiting
three various state seals, and showing too, that under the
crown as well as in Revolutionary times, there never has
been a lack of military spirit and patriotism at the head of
Sagamore Creek.