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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

56 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
are both papist names, and the eldest of a Sir John Whyddon, also from the same corner of England, a justice in
special favor with the bloody Mary, married the heiress of
Langdon of Keverel. There was also a Langdon sent
here, to New York we believe, by the papist James the
second. And as the second Tobias Langdon got his commission of ensign from James, it may be, as he was very
young, that it was that the name may not have escaped the
loyal ears of Sir Edmund Andross, James's governor of
New England. There is a possibility that Henry Sherburne
of Piscataway may have been a papist, and a distant relation of the great papist Sherburnes of the North, but
there isn't any, we think, that his male line in the States will
ever get their estates.
One of Henry Sherburne's daughters married with a
Sloper, a race gone from here in the male line, but their
cellars and gravestones are left on Sloper's hill and Sloper's
plain. Another, Elizabeth, married the young Mr. Tobias
Langdon, who died early; next, Tobias Lear, the ancestor
of General Washington's Tobias Lear-the Lears lived on
the eastern side of the Langdons, and the Slopers on the
west, all now in one farm-and next she married Mr.
Richard Martyn.
By Tobias Langdon sle had four children: Tobias,
Elizabeth, who married with a Fernald, and Honour with a
Laighton, both in Kittery, and Margaret with a Morrel.
Captain Tobias Langdon, her son, who is buried in his
field, married Mary Hubbard of Salisbury in the Bay, and
they had at least nine children; that is they had, if we remember, three sons-in-law, Bampfylde, Peirce and Shapleigh,
all very ancient west country names; and they had seven
sons: their eldest son Tobias, we do not know what became
of him: Richard, their second, born 1694, lived and died at
Newton on Long Island, and has descendants both in England
and here, of very good standing in the world: some of them