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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

160 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
RAMBLE CXI.
E-ev. Salnuel 1M\cClintock.
IN the picture of the battle of Bunker Hill, representing
the fall of Gen. Warren, may be seen in the group a clergyman arrayed in his bands, who appears to be deeply
interested in the battle. That man was the Rev. SAMUEL
MCCLINTOCK, D. D. of Greenland, N. H., the father of the
venerable John McClintock, who died in Portsmouth a few
years since at the age of 94, retaining his mental and physical faculties to the last.
We have recently been applied to for a history of Rev.
Dr. McClintock, and have been enabled to collect the
following from an authentic source, embracing some interesting facts which have never before appeared in print.
William McClintock, (the father of Dr. Samuel McClintock, the subject of this article)) was a respectable farmers
born in Scotland. From thence he early removed to Lon
donderry in Ireland, probably in the latter part of James
the Second's reign. When his intrigues, in order to rein.
state Catholicism, were creating great uneasiness among his
people, James endeavored by taking sides with the Kirk to
overthrow the Episcopacy, for by thus pitching one party
against another and holding the balance of power, he
hoped in the end to turn the scale and restore Catholicism.
But the Presbyterians were too cunning for hiim: strong
as was their hatred of Episcopacy, their dislike for Catholicism was greater, and uniting with their Episcopal brethren, they showed themselves ready to receive his favors
but unwilling to enter into any of his plans. The civil
wars of Charles the first were not however forgotten, and
many were fearing new changes, and emigrated from all
parts of the kingdom. Among these was Mr. McClintock.
He went where he found friends; for the eastern coast of