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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

230 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
and an ell. It somewhat resembled in appearance the
Whipple house, the residence of the late Alexander Ladd,
Esq. on Market street, and was built at about the same
time. The house was on the site of the present residence
of J. M. Tredick, Esq. and connected with it was the large
garden, now owned by Mr. Tredick. Mr. Sheafe owned
the whole of the square south of the Market, excepting the
corner lot, on which a building iwas, after the fire, erected
for the N. H. Union Bank,, and nowr occupied by Albert R.
Hatch, Esq. and C. N.:Shaw & Co. At the time of the fire,
on this corner lot was the Adams house, where resided the
mother of Nathaniel Adams, the collector of the Annals of
Portsmouth. In this house at the time of the fire were
shoe shops of Lewis Bruce and Mendum Janvrin. Between
this house and James Sheafe's:residence, was another
double house belonging to him, and occupied in.one tenement by Dr. J. H. Pierrepoint, the beloved physician, and
in the other by the widow Rachel Isaac, as a variety store
and residence.
Abralamm Isaac and his wife were natives of Prussia, and
Jews of the strictest sect. They were the first descendants
of the venerable Jewish patriarch that ever pitched their
tent in Portsmouth, and during their lives were the only
Jews among us. HIe was an auctioneer, acquired a good
property and built the house opposite the Rockingham
House on State street now owned and occupied by Mrs.
AM. P. Jones. Their shop was always closed on Saturday,
and on almost any other day in pleasant weather, Mrs. Isaac
might be seen at the counter or looking over the half door
by which the shop was entered. In front of the house,
within a foot of it, was a pump. The well is still kept in
order for fres, and it may be seen on the outside of the
present sidewalk, near the cross pavement which leads to
the Episcopal chapel. Mr. Isaac died on the 15th of Feb.
1803, aged 49, and on the stone which marks his grave in