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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

FINALE OF PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT IN N. H. 253
Repetition of the like insults and to provide for my own
security.
I think it exceedingly for the king's service to remain as
long as possible at the Fort, where I now am with my
Family in a small incommodious House without any other
prospect of safety, if the prevailing madness of the people
should follow me hither, than the hope of retreating on
board his Majesty's ship Scarborough, if it should be in
my powrer. This fort, although containing upwards of
sixty pieces Cannon, is without men or ammunition.
In a letter to Paul Wentworthl, dated at Fort William
and tMary 29 June, 1775 he says:
Admiral Graves has sent a transport under convoy of
the Falcon, sloop-of:war, and entirely dismantled this ungarrisoned Castle of all the ordinance, stores, &c.
Besides the inconvenience of being crowded into this
miserable house, confined for room and neither wind or
water tight, I am inevitably obliged to incur some extra
expense bfr my safety and existence even here. Being of
necessity compelled to make some small repairs to render
it habitable and to employ six men as watches to prevent
nmy being surprised and made prisoner. These, with my
three servants, and Mr.. Benning Wentworth, and Captain
Cochran are divided into three guards of four hours each;
by which means I have some security of getting on board
the Scarborough. The six men are at the expence of
Twelve dollars per month each, including their dieting,
allowance of Rtum, &c.; under which expence no trusty
man can possibly be had for so unpopular a service in this
time of general opposition to Government. The repairs
will not exceed fifty guineas.
In a letter to Lord Dartmouth, dated at Fort William
and Mary, 17 July, 1775, he says: " From five to eight
men have been usually kept in this Fort in time of Peace."
The latest letters dating from Fort William and Mary
are those addressed, 17 August, 1775, to Hon. Theo. AtkinThis Paul Wentwort'h was a native of one of the West Indii Islands; but had passed
sometime at Portsmouth, N. 11. He was agent for the Piovince of New lHampshire at
London, and had been appointed a councillor whilst at London, but htad not returned to be
s\\Crii ir wh n the revolution iboke out. Dartmouth eonferled the dgileeof L. L. UD.
upon him in 1789. Ee died at;uriinam in December, 1793.