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 GENERAL WILLIAM WHIPPLE, 
 
 siGxiiR OF Till-: dp:claratton or independence, 
 
 DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT, 
 
 ADMIRAL. UNITED STATES NAVY. 
 
 November 20th, 1891, 
 
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 STORER POST, No. 1, 
 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, 
 
 Department of New Hampshire, 
 
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 CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H., 
 WHIPPLE AND FARRAGUT SCHOOLS. 
 
 PORTSMOUTH, N. II. 
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 I'lcpared for publication l>y 
 
 .lOSKI'H FOSTEK, 
 
 Sooretiiry Kntoitiiinment Cotnmittcc, Storor To^^t. 
 
AMERICA. 
 
 HKV. S. F. SMITH. 
 
 IMy country ! 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 
 Of tliee I sing; 
 lAuul where my fathers dieil, 
 Land of the Pilgrim's )iride, 
 From every mountain side 
 
 I>et freedom ring. 
 
 My native country ! thee, 
 liand of the noble free, 
 
 Thy name I love! 
 I love thy rocks and rills, 
 'I'liy woods and templed hills; 
 My heart with rapture thrills 
 
 I>iUe that above. 
 
 Let music swell the l)reeze 
 .\nd ring from iUl the trees. 
 
 Sweet Freedom's song; 
 liCt mortal tongues awake, 
 Let all that breathe partake, 
 IjCt rocks their silence break- 
 
 The sound prolong. 
 
 ^ly father's God! to Thee, 
 Author of liberty! 
 
 To Thee we sing. 
 Long may our land be bright 
 With freedom's holy light; 
 Protect us by Thy'.might, 
 
 (ireat (Jod! Otir King! 
 
A L<'ss<ni ill l*atriotisin. 
 
 Tlie forma' presentation to the city by 
 Storer Po«t. G. A. \i.. at Music Hall last 
 evcniiis:, of tlie portraits of Gen. Wil iam 
 Whipple and Admiral David G. Farrai>ut. 
 was an impressive occasion, and an in- 
 structive lesson in patriotism, which 
 wliile interesting to all present, of what- 
 ever age, can hardly fail to stimulate love 
 of country and elevate the ideal standard 
 of honor in the minds of yonnij people 
 who attended the ceremonies. The re- 
 cital, more tlian a century after General 
 Whipple's death, of his eminent services 
 as statesman, soldier and jnri<t duri ijr 
 the stormy years of the nation's infancy ; 
 the outline li story of what Admiral Far- 
 ragut, the greatest nava! genius of mod- 
 ern times, achieved for the nation during 
 the gloomy period of the war of st ces- 
 sion ; the.^e stories of departed lieroes and 
 patriots related by men themselves hav- 
 ing record of most honorable service, and 
 listened to reverently by a throng of 
 others of similar record, whose deeds are 
 part of the nation's history, and by many 
 who liave been wortliily honored by the'r 
 fellow citizens in civil position, must tmd 
 to the elevation of yonthful ambi ion, and 
 the healthy growth of patriotic senlimenr 
 in the young. 
 
 The cfl'ect may not be immediately 
 apparent, but it will be permanent, and 
 increase witli year's as memory recal's the 
 event to the raaturer mind. One such 
 incident as the presentation ceremony of 
 last evening may do much to point out the* 
 path of honor and true g ory to youtli 
 whose ambitious ideas have been per- 
 verted by the trashy literature of thed :iy. 
 Too many such lessons cannot be given. 
 (Ktiitorial, Times, 11 Xovembor, IS'.il.) 
 
WHIPPLE m mimi 
 
 Their Portraits Presented to 
 the City by Storer Post. 
 
 iQterestiDg Exercises in Masic Hall. 
 
 Large Audience Listens to 
 Eloquent Addresses by Com- 
 rades Foster and Sniitli. 
 
 "O, true clescenclant of a patriot line, 
 Vouchsafelthis'picluve ot tbyself to see" 
 
 Within the walls of Music hall was 
 gathered a patriotic host on the evening 
 of November 20th, 1891. It was to wit- 
 ness the presentation by New Hampshire's 
 pioneer Grand Army Post, Storer, No. 
 One, of Portsmouth, of the'portraits of 
 General William ^Whipple and A<1miral 
 David Glasgow. Farragut to the city, 
 for the respective new school buildings 
 bearing the honored names of these dis- 
 tinguished heroes of difl'drent eras. 
 
 It was treading the path to noble ends 
 when these veterans of the late war con- 
 ceived this idea, and the culmination of 
 their desires I" in the exercises of Friday 
 evening marked another epoch, so to 
 speak, in the history of good deeds! for 
 which this organization has always been 
 noted, deeds such as have written tender 
 poems on many hearts and whose acts 
 will remain as enduring as memory and as 
 substantial as our Granite hills. 
 
 The public, too has been grateful to ac- 
 knowledge the work of Storer Post and 
 in this last great assemblage at Music hall 
 with its manifest interest was found that 
 renewal of fraternity and appreciation 
 which must have made glad the hearts of 
 the old veterans. 
 
 Hon. and Alderman Charles P. Berry, 
 ably filled the position of chairman of the 
 meeting, and to his keen tact and fore- 
 sight was due the fact that there was a 
 happy avoidance of any tedious delays in 
 the general exercises. Among those 
 seated with him on the stage were the city 
 government, board of instruction, officers 
 of Sto'^er Post, and ex-mayors of Ports- 
 mouth. Two sons of the revolution, 
 Moses Yeat^n and Samuel S. Green, of 
 Portsmouth, were also among the invited 
 guests. 
 
 Occupying commanding positions upon 
 the stage and resting upon easels were 
 the two magnificent portraits in oil of the 
 distinguished General William Whipple 
 and the ititrepid Admiral David Glasgow 
 Farragut, both the centre of attraction 
 and admiration of the great multitude 
 present. 
 
 The front rows of seats in the parquet 
 were occupied by children of the Whipple 
 and Farragut schools, while immediately 
 in their rear was Storer Post, the remain- 
 der of the hall being completely lilled with 
 an interested audience. 
 
 The meetiDg was opened by the follow- 
 ing 
 
 Address from Chairman Berry. 
 Members of Storer Pos'. and the City 
 Government of Portsmouth, 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : -Having con- 
 sented some time since to act in the ca- 
 pacity of chairman of a meeting called by 
 a joint committee of St"rer Post and the 
 City Government, to take action on the 
 matter for which we are tonight assem- 
 bled, I find devolving upon me and at this 
 auspicious time the duty to act in the 
 same capacity in conjunction with the 
 commander of Storer Post. 
 
 While I am quite sure that there are 
 many others who could fill the duties of 
 the office much befer than myself, yet 
 with your kind indulgence I will endeavor 
 to serve you to the best of my ability. 
 
 I presume you are all aware for what 
 purpose we have met, but for fear there 
 may be some one present who does not 
 fully understand, I will simply state that 
 Storer Post, at great expense and much 
 sacrifice on their part, have had painted 
 two beautiful portraits, one of Admiral 
 Farragut and one of Gen. Whipple, 
 which they are about to present to the 
 
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 city, that they may adorn the walls of the 
 schools bearing their respective names. 
 
 And now without further intruding 
 upon your time knowiug that the exer- 
 cises will be much more interesting to 
 you than any remarks lean offer, I will 
 call upon the children to open the same 
 with music. 
 
 The response was a spirited rendering 
 of "America" by the scholars present 
 representing the two schools, Wendell P. 
 Brown of the Haven school, direct- 
 ing, and Harry Osgood, one of the Sons 
 of Veterans, presiding at the piano. 
 
 At the conclusion of the sona Chairman 
 Berry arose and introduced Commander 
 Joseph R. Curtis of Storer Post, G. A. 
 R , who in behalf of that organization 
 spoke as follows : 
 
 latrodnctory of Commander Curtis. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : The occasion 
 which calls U3 together tonight is one 
 that has long been looked forward to 
 with peculiar pleasure and interest by 
 the comrades of Storer Post No. 1, Dep't. 
 of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the 
 Republic. I will not stop at this stage of 
 the meeting to state the object of our as- 
 sembling. 
 
 The purposes and hopes which have 
 animated the breasts of my comrades- in 
 their work of procuring these ma^niflsent 
 and lifelike portraits of William Wnipple 
 and David Glasgow Farragut for presen- 
 tation to the city of Portsmouth for the 
 splendid public school buildings bearing 
 their names, will, I trust, be clearly set 
 forth in the exercises that are to follow. 
 
 Before proceeding with the pleasurable 
 duty assigned me by my comrades, I will 
 call upon Comrade Joseph Foster , to 
 whose enthusiasm, perseverance and un- 
 flagging zeal much of the success which 
 culminates so happily tonight is due, to 
 address you on the life and career of that 
 distinguished statesman, patriot and 
 soldier. General William Whipple, Ports- 
 mouth's Signer of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the pleas- 
 ure of introducing to you Comrade Joseph 
 Foster, Paymaster U. S. Navy. 
 
 Address of Comrade Joseph Foster. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the City 
 Government of Portsmouth, Friends 
 and Comrades : 
 
 "When, in the course of human events, 
 it becomes necessary for one people to dis- 
 solve the political bands which have con- 
 nected them with another, and to assume 
 among the powers of the earth the separate 
 and equal station to which the laws of na- 
 ture and of nature's God entitle them, a 
 
 decent respect to the opinions of mankind 
 requires that they should declare the causes 
 which impel them to the separation. 
 
 We hold these 'ruths to be self-evident- 
 that all men are created equal; that they 
 areendoA'ed by their Creator with cer- 
 tain inalienable rights ; that among these 
 are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- 
 ness. That to secure these rights 
 governments are instituted among men 
 deriving their just powers from the 
 consent of the governed ; that whenever 
 any form of government becomes de- 
 structive of these ends it is the right of 
 the people to alter or to abolish it, and to 
 institute a new government, laying its 
 foundatim on such principles and organ 
 izing its powers in such form a-i to them 
 shall seem mostlikely to efl'ect their safety 
 and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will 
 dictate that governments long established 
 should not be changed for light and 
 transient causes; and. accordingly, all 
 experience hath shown that mankind are 
 more disposed to suffer, while evils are 
 sufferable, than to right themselves by 
 abolishing the forms to which they are 
 accustomed. 
 
 But, when a long train of abuses and 
 usurpations, pursuing invariably the same 
 object, evinces a design to reduce them 
 under absolute despotism, it is their right, 
 it is their duty, to throw off suoh govern- 
 ment and to provide new guards for thdr 
 future security. Such has been the pa- 
 tient sufferacce of these colonies, and 
 such is now the necessity which con- 
 strains them to alter their former systems 
 of government. The history of the 
 present king of Great Britain is a history 
 of repeated injuries and usurpations, all 
 having, in direct object, the establishment 
 of an absolute tyranny over these states. 
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 We, therefore, the representatives of 
 the United States of America, in general 
 congress assembled, apoealing to the 
 Supreme Judge of the world for the rec- 
 titude of our intentions, do, in the name 
 and by the authority of the good people 
 of these colonies, solemnly publish and 
 declare that these united colonies are, 
 and of right ought to be, free and inde- 
 pendent states ; that they are absolved 
 from all allegiance to the British crown, 
 and that all political connection between 
 them and the state of Great Britain is, 
 and ouicht to be, totally dissolved ; and 
 that as free and independent states, they 
 have full power to levy war, conclude 
 peace, contract alliances, establish com- 
 merce, and to do all other acts and things 
 which independent states may of right do. 
 And, for the support of this declaration, 
 with a firm reliance on the protection of 
 Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to 
 
each other our lives, our fortunes, and our 
 sacred honor." 
 
 To these eloquent words of Thomas 
 Jefferson, the Magna Charta of American 
 freedom, and the seed, which planted in 
 the hearts of lovers of liberty throughout 
 the world, has brought so many blessiugs 
 to all mankind, was signed the name of a 
 citizen of Portsmouth, who, carrying out 
 his own patriotic Instincts and the earnest 
 desire of our grandfathers, with Josiah 
 Bartlett, of Kingston, and Matthew Thorn- 
 ton, of Londonderry, his fellow-delegates 
 from New Hampshire, united with fifty- 
 three delegates from the other colonies in 
 this tbe grandest act of all history, and 
 thus forever immortalized his name on the 
 roll of those supporters and protectors of 
 human rights and universal liberty whom 
 we proudly hail as the greatest benefac- 
 tors of mankind. 
 
 The local Post of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, which is in its very essence 
 an historical society, realizing a few 
 months since that the name of this, our 
 most illustrious citizen, had almost passed 
 from memory among us, appointed a com- 
 mittee to wait upon the City Government 
 and ask that the name of our Port&mouth 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence 
 might be given to the new school house 
 on State street, and in acknowledgment 
 of thtir courtesy in accepting the sugges- 
 tion and adopting this name, Storer Post 
 has caused this beautiful oil portrait of 
 William Whipple to be painted for pre- 
 sentation to the city to be placed in the 
 room occupied by the senior class at 
 Whipple school. 
 
 History is the most interesting of 
 studies, for truth is always stranger and 
 more impressive than Action, but to the 
 mind of childhood it mnst be mi ist difficult 
 to place evt-nts in their proper positions 
 on the ladder cf time, anri G<n,ly^^)urg, 
 Bunker Hill, Waterloo and Maiaihon, 
 with a thousand other events in the 
 world'd^history, must often be confusedly 
 intermingled 
 
 But the history of our own country 
 should be foremost in every thought and 
 the love of Union and Liberty should be 
 planted deep in the heart of childhood, 
 and to this end Storer Post places this 
 portrait in the Whipple school, a portrait 
 presented by Portsmouth men who fought 
 at Antietam, suffered at Andersonville 
 and triumphed at Gettysburg, — battled 
 with Farragut and Porter, and conquered 
 with Winslow on our own "Kearsarge" — 
 that an object lesson should thus be given 
 to the children of Portsmouth, which may, 
 year after year, for many a day to come, 
 be interpreted to them by their teachers, 
 
 as the connecting link with many events 
 of local and national history. 
 
 For this portrait will point the way to 
 the birthplace of William Whipple, in 
 Kittery, on the other bank of our noble 
 Piscataqua, to his residence on Market 
 street, where, south of the house, yet 
 stands the magnificent horse-chestnut 
 tree planted by him, and to the grave in 
 the North cemetery where his ashes 
 rest,— and will thus teach, through him, 
 in the most realistic way, the story of the 
 American Revolution. 
 
 It is my privilege tonight to first in- 
 terpret its lesson and ti- tell the story of 
 the Declaration of Independence, and of 
 the life of Williani Whipple; and if I 
 seem to choose too frequently the phrases 
 of another who made a study of the 
 lives of tbe Signers,* you will gain in 
 exactness of statement and in eloquence 
 of words what you may lose in originali- 
 ty, and will therefore, I am quite sure, be 
 very willing to pardou my choice in this 
 matter. 
 
 "With the commencement of the year 
 1776, the aflairs of the colonies, and 
 certainly the views of their pilitical 
 leaders, began to assume a new aspect, 
 one of m->re energy, and with motives 
 and objects more decided and apparent. 
 Eighteen months had passed away since 
 the colonists had learned by the intrench- 
 ments at Boston, that a report to arms 
 was an event, not beyond the con- 
 templation of the British ministry. 
 
 Nearly a year had elapsed, since the 
 fields of Concord and Lexington had 
 been stained with hostile blood ; during 
 this interval, armies had been raised, 
 vessels of war had been equipped, forti- 
 fications had been erected, gallant exploits 
 had benn performed, and eventful battles 
 had been lost and won; yet still were the 
 provinces bound to their British brethren, 
 by the ties of a similar allegiance; still 
 did they lonk upon themselves as mem- 
 bers of the same empire, subjects of the 
 same sovereign, and partners in the same 
 constitution and laws. 
 
 Every expedient, however, short of 
 unconditional separation, had now been 
 tried by congress, — but in vain. It ap- 
 peared worse than useless, longer to pur- 
 sue measures of open hostility, and yet to 
 hold out the promises of reconciliation. 
 The time had arrived when a more decid- 
 ed stand must be taken,— the circum- 
 stances of the nation demanded it, the 
 success of the struggle depended on it. 
 The best and wisest men had become con- 
 vinced, that no accommodation could take 
 place, and that a course which was not 
 
 * "Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Inclepenrtence, revisea 
 and edited by Kobert T. Conrad," Philadelphia, 1846, 
 
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 marked by decision, would create dissatis- 
 faction among the resolute, wliile it 
 would render more uncertain the feeble 
 and the wavering. 
 
 During the spring of 177G, therefore, 
 the question of independence became one 
 of very general interest and reflection 
 among all classes of the nation. It was 
 taken into consideration by some of the 
 colonial legislatures, and in Virginia a 
 resolution was adopted io favor of its 
 immediate declaration 
 
 Under these circumstances, the subject 
 was brought directly before congress, on 
 Friday, the seventh of June, I77G," when 
 Richard Ilenrv Lee, of Virginia, "moved 
 'that these United Colonies are, and of 
 right ought to ha, free and independent 
 states; that they are absolved from all 
 allegiance to the British crown ; and that 
 all political connection between them and 
 the state of Gr« at Britain is, and ought to 
 be, totally dissolved.' " "It was discussed 
 very fully on the following Saturday and 
 Monday," and "on [Monday] the tenth of 
 June it was resolved, 'that the considera- 
 tion of the resolution respecting indepen- 
 dence be postponed till the first Monday 
 in July next; and in the meanwhile, that 
 no time be lost, in case the congress agree 
 thereto, that a committee be appointed to 
 prepare a declara-ion to the effect of the 
 said resolution.'" 
 
 This committee cf-nsi.->ted of Thomas 
 Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of 
 Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of 
 Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connec- 
 ticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New 
 York; Mr. Lee, the orignal mover of 
 the resolution, being called home by "the 
 dangerous illne.«s of some members of his 
 family;" "and to Mr. Jefferson, the chair- 
 man of the committee, was ultimately as- 
 signed the imoortant duty of preparing 
 the draught of the document, for the for- 
 mation of which they had been appointed. 
 
 The task thus devolved upon Mr. 
 Jefferson, was of no ordinary magnitude; 
 aad required the exercise of no common 
 judgment and foresight. To frame such 
 a document, was the effort of no common 
 mind. That of Mr. Jefferson proved fully 
 equal to] the tahk. His labors received 
 the immediate approbation and sanction 
 of the committee : and their opinion has 
 been confirmed by the testimony of suc- 
 ceeding years, and of every nation where 
 it has been known. 
 
 On the twenty-eighth of June, the 
 Declaration of Independence was pre- 
 sented to congress, and read. On the 
 first, second, and third of July, it was 
 taken into full consideration; and on ihe 
 fourth, it was agreed to after several al- 
 terations, and considerable omissions had i 
 
 been made in the draught, as it was first 
 framed by the committee." 
 
 "When the question of independence 
 was put, in a committee of the whole, on 
 the first of July, . . . and the pres- 
 ident resumed the chair, the chairman of 
 the committee of the whole made his re- 
 port, which was not acted upon until 
 Thursday, July 4. Every s' ate, excepting 
 Pennsylvania and Delaware, had voted in 
 favor of the measure, but it was a matter 
 of great importance to procure an unani- 
 mous voice." The return of one of the 
 DeUware members, who was in favor of 
 the Declaration, secured the voice of 
 that state on the fou'-th of July, and "two 
 of the members of the Pennsylvania dele- 
 gation adverse to the measure, being 
 absent, that state was also united in the 
 vote, by a majority of one. By these 
 means, the Dec a'ation of Independence 
 became the unanimous act of the thirteen 
 states." 
 
 "Speaking of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence," Thomas Jefferson said, "that 
 'John Adams was the pillar of its support 
 on the floor of congress; its ablest advo- 
 cate and defender against the multifa- 
 rious assaults it encountered.' " 
 
 "The transport of his [Mr. Adams'] 
 feelings, the exuberance of his 
 joy, on . . . [the adoption of the Dec- 
 laration,] may be seen most vividly por- 
 trayed in the letter which he wrote to 
 Mrs. Adams on ihe succeeding day — a let- 
 ter that is memorable, and now embalmed 
 in American history, simply because it is 
 so true and inartificial an effusion of 
 ardent, enlightened, and disinterested 
 palriofsm. 
 
 'Yesterda'^*' he says, 'the greatest ques- 
 tion was decided, Ih-it was ever debated 
 in America ; and greater, perhaps, never 
 was or will be decided among men. A 
 resolution was passed, without one dis- 
 sen'ing clony, 'that these United S'a'es 
 are, and of right ought to be, free and 
 independent states'. The day is passed. 
 The fourth of July, 177G, will be a mem- 
 orable epoch in the history of America. 
 I am apt to believe it wi.l be celebrated, 
 by succeeding generations, as the great 
 anniversary festival. It ought to be 
 commemorated as the day of deliverance, 
 by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty 
 God. It ought to be solemnized with 
 pomps, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, 
 bonfires, and illuminations, from one end 
 of the continent to the other, from this 
 time forward for ever. You will think 
 me transported with enlhusinsm, but I am 
 not. I am well aware of the toil, and 
 blood, and treasure, that it will cost to 
 maintain this declaration, and support and 
 defend these states ; yet through all the 
 
gloom, I can see the rays of light and 
 g'ory. I can see that the end is worth 
 more than all the means ; and that pos- 
 terity will triumph, although you and I 
 may rue, which I hope we shall not." 
 
 On the 15th day of June, 1776, the New 
 Hampshire Legislature had instructed the 
 delegates in Congress from New Hamp- 
 shire, to join with the other colonies in 
 declaring the thirteen United Colonies a 
 free and independent state. 
 
 And "on that memorable day, [when] 
 the decisive vote was taken, which re- 
 sulted in the unanimous declaration of all 
 the states in favor of independence, [New 
 Hampshire spoke flist, for] in taking the 
 question the northernmost colony was 
 tirst called on, and Dr. [Josiah] Bartlett, 
 [of New Hampshire, born 1729, died 
 1795] had the accidental, but interesting 
 duty of first giving his voice in favor of 
 the resolution." 
 
 And William Whipple of Portsmouth, 
 the only other delegate from New Hamp- 
 shire, then serving in congress, was 
 doubtless the second to give his vote in 
 favor of Independence. 
 
 For, "un the twenty third of January, 
 1776, a second election for delegates 
 [from New Hampshire] to the continen- 
 tal Congress [had] occurred" and Josiah 
 Bartlett of Kingston, and "his m(.st at- 
 tached personal friends, William Whipple 
 and John Langdon," of Portcmouth, were 
 chosen. The two former "long served" 
 with each other "in Congress, and their 
 signatures are found together on the 
 charter of Independence. Mr. Langdon, 
 owing to an anpointment to another of- 
 fice lost the opportunity of recording his 
 patriotic sentiments in the same conspic- 
 uous manner." 
 
 "On the twelfth of September. 1776," 
 Matthew Thornton, of Londonderry, born 
 1714, died 1803 "was appointed, by the 
 house of representatives, a delegate to 
 represent the state of New Hampshire in 
 Congress, dunng the term of one year. 
 He did not take his seat in that illustrious 
 body until the fourth of November fol- 
 lowing, being four months afcer the pas- 
 sage of the Declaration of Independence; 
 but he immediately acceded to it, and was 
 permitted to place his signature on the 
 engrossed copy of the instrument;, among 
 those of the fifty-six worthies, who have 
 immortalized their names by that mem- 
 orable and magnanimous act." 
 
 "The Declaration of Independence 
 . . . was accompanied in its first 
 publication by the ^ignature of Mr Han- 
 cock alone," and "the manmcript public 
 journal has no names annexed to the Dec- 
 laration of Independence, nor has the secret 
 journal; but it appears by toe latter, that 
 on the ninetegpth day of July, 177G, the 
 
 Congress directed that it should be eu- 
 gressed on parchment, and signed by ev- 
 ery member, and that it was so produced 
 on the second of August, and signed. 
 This is interlined in the secret journal, 
 in the hand of Charles Thomson, the 
 secretary." 
 
 "The printed journals of Congress, in- 
 deed, make it appear, that the Declaration 
 of Independence was adopted and signed 
 on the fourth of July, by the gentlemen 
 whose names are subscribed to it under 
 the head of that date. But this impres- 
 sion is incorrect; because, in fact not 
 one signature was affixed to the Declara- 
 tion until the second of August. The 
 idea of signing does not appear to have 
 occurred immediately ; for not until the 
 nineteenth of July . . . did the resolu- 
 tion pass, directing the Declaration to be 
 engrossed on parchment. This was ac- 
 cordingly done; and on the second of 
 August following, when the engrossed 
 copy was prepared, and not before, the 
 Declaration was signed by the members, 
 who on that day were present in congress. 
 . . . Those members who were absent on 
 the second of August, subscribed the 
 Declaration as soon after as opportunity 
 offered. 
 
 The engrossed copy of the Declaration 
 of Independence was placed on the desk 
 of the secretary of congress, on the 
 second of August, to receive the signa- 
 tures of the members, and Mr. Hancock, 
 president of congress, during a conversa- 
 tion with Mr [Charles] Carroll [of Mary- 
 land, who had only taken his seat on the 
 eighte 'nth of the previous month], asked 
 him if he would sign it. 'Most willingly', 
 was the reply, and taking a pen, he at 
 once put his name to the instrument. 
 'There goes a few millions,' said one of 
 those who stood by ; and all present at the 
 time agreed, that in point of fortune, few 
 risked more than Charles Carroll of 
 CarroUton." 
 
 The case of Mr. Carroll was not singu- 
 lar, for besides Dr. Thornton of New 
 Hampshire, already mentioned, five of 
 the Pennsylvania delegates who signed 
 the Declaration were not present in con- 
 gress on the fourth of July, 1776, "not 
 having been chosen delegates by the 
 legislature of Pennsylvania until the 
 twentieth day of that month," "to succeed 
 those members of the Pennsylvania 
 delegation, who had refused their assent 
 to the Declaration of Independence, and 
 abandoned their seats in congress." 
 
 William Ellery, one of the Signers from 
 Rhode Island, in after years, "often spoke 
 of the signing of the Declaration ; and he 
 spoke of it, as an event which many 
 regarded with awe, perhaps with un- 
 certainty, but none with fear. 'I was de- 
 
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 tertnined,' he used to say, 'to see 
 how they all looked, as they signed what , 
 might be their death warrant. I plafPd 
 myself beside the secretary, Charles 
 Thomson, and eyed each closely as he 
 affixed his name to the document. Un- 
 daunted resolution was displayed in 
 every countenance.' " 
 
 "When the fiftieth anniversary of the 
 Declaration of Independence approached, 
 two only of the committee that prepared 
 that document, and of the Congress that 
 voted its adoption and promulgation, and 
 one more besides of those who inscribed 
 their names upon it, yet survived." 
 
 '"Lilie the books of the SybU, the 
 living signers of the Declaration of 
 Independence increased in value as they 
 diminished in number.' On the third of 
 July, 1826, three only remained, — John 
 Adams, Thomas Jefterson, and Charles 
 Carroll of Carrollton. On the fourth of 
 July, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the 
 day on which they pledged their all 
 to their country, when the ten millions 
 who were indebted to them for liberty, 
 were celebrating the year of jubilee; 
 when the names of the three signers were 
 on every lip, John Adams and Thomas 
 Jefi'erson died, leaving Charles Carroll of 
 Carrollton the last link between the past 
 and" that "generation." 
 
 "That such an anniversary should be 
 the day appointed for the departure of 
 the two CO laborers" was a startling co- 
 incidence, and "the universal burst of 
 feeling in all parts of this country, 
 showed that the nation recognized some- 
 thing in the dispensation beyond the 
 ordinary laws of human existence." 
 
 "They departed cheered by the bene- 
 dictions of their country, to whom they 
 left the inheritance of their fame, and 
 the memory of their bright example." 
 
 "On the fourteenth of November, 1832, 
 Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last of 
 the signers, full of years and full of hon- 
 ors, closed his earthly career [aged 95 
 years]. A nation's tears were shed upon 
 his grave ; a nation's gratitude hallows his 
 memory." 
 
 "They pledged their lives, their for- 
 tunes, and their sacred honor; and not 
 one was false to the pledge— not one ! 
 They sufi'ered much; some died from 
 hardships encountered, some were im- 
 prisoned, many were impoverished, and 
 all were tempted by promises, and men- 
 aced by the wrath of what seemed, for a 
 time, an earthly omnipotence : but all stood 
 firm. There was doubt previous to the 
 declaration — none after. Every name 
 shone brighter as the darkness thickened. 
 Each patriot was a sun that stood fast 
 . . . until the battle of independence bad 
 been fought and won." 
 
 " 'They are no more, tbey are dead. Bat 
 
 how little is there of the great and good 
 which can die! To their count) y Ihey 
 yet live, and live for ever. They live in 
 all that perpetuates the remembrance of 
 men on earth : in the recorded proofs of 
 their own great actions, in the oflfspring 
 of their intellect, in the deep engraved 
 lines of public gratitude, and in the re- 
 spect and homage of mankind. They live 
 in their example; and they live, emphat- 
 ically, and will live, in the ii flaence 
 which their lives and *fi"orts, their prin- 
 ciples and opinions, now exercise, and 
 will continue to exercise, on the afl'airs of 
 men, not only in their own country, but 
 hroughout the civilized world.' " 
 
 The Declaration of Independence was 
 publicly proclaimed in Portsmouth, on 
 the 18th of July, 1776, from the steps, 
 facing on King street, of the Old State 
 House, built in 1758 upon a ledge of rocks 
 occupying the centre of our present 
 M arket square, which stooa there un- 
 til removed in 1837; and when the read- 
 ing was finished, Thomas Manniig, a de- 
 voted patriot of Portsmruth, some of 
 whose descendants now attend the Whip- 
 ple school, threw His hat in the air, 
 shouting "Huzza for Congress street," 
 which then and there became its name; a 
 uanic which in memory of the Congress of 
 177(! it will, I trust, forever bear. This 
 story of the naming of Congress street is 
 perhaps familiar to every Portsmouth cit 
 izcu, and doubtless each also knows the 
 locality of Liberty bridge, and I trust its 
 story, too. But while all may know these 
 in- idents of our local history, and that the 
 first overt act of the Revolution was the 
 capture on the night of the 13th of De- 
 cember, 1774, at Fort William and Mary, 
 now Fort Constitution, by the patriots of 
 Portsmouth and vicinity, of the powder, 
 which a little later was so bravely ex- 
 pended at Bunker Hill, yet few realize the 
 fact that this William Whipple,— illustri- 
 ous both in state and field — besides sign- 
 ing the Declaration of Independence, took 
 a prominent part in the capture of Bur- 
 goyne, a victory which delivered the Amer- 
 ican cause from the greatest peril and 
 brought joy without measure to the peo- 
 ple, and that in behalf of General GiUs 
 tie signed the articles of capitulation of 
 the British troops ; and afterward was 
 one of the ofiicers under whose charge 
 they were conducted to their place of 
 encampment on Winter hill, near Boston. 
 
 Let me tell his story as bri'-fiy as I may. 
 
 William Whipple was the son of Capt. 
 William Whipple, senior, of Kittery, Me., 
 a native of Ipswich, Mass., (wtiitber hia 
 great grandfather, Elder John Whipple, 
 came from Essex, England, in or before 
 1639) who die^ the 7Dh of August, 1751, 
 
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 aged 56 years. William Whipple, the son, 
 was born the 14th of January, 1730, in the 
 " Whpple garrison houst" on Whipple's 
 cove, Kittery, his father's house, and pre- 
 viously the home of his maternal grand- 
 father and great grandfather, Robert 
 Cutt, first and second, where Harrison J. 
 Philbrick now resides. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools 
 of Kittery, af^d early went to sea, as did 
 so many kittery and Portsmouth boys 
 from that time up to the breaking out of 
 the Rebellion, for a "Life on the Ocean 
 Wave" was for many years the most 
 promising one here open to an energetic and 
 ambitious boy. He obtained the com- 
 mand of a vessel before he was twenty- 
 one years of age, and engaged in the 
 European, West India and African trade, 
 in one voyage, at least, bringing slaves, it 
 is said, to this country from Africa, for 
 at that time, more than one hundred and 
 thirty years ago, and for thirty or forty 
 years afterwards, slaves were held in 
 New Hampshire; and, indeed, the consti- 
 tution of the United States authorized 
 their importation from Africa into this 
 couDtry until the year 1808, fifty years 
 later. 
 
 In 1759, at the age of 29, he abandoned 
 the sea entirely, and entered into business 
 in Portsmouth with his brother, under the 
 firm name of William and Joseph Whip- 
 ple, which connection lasted till about 
 two years previous to the Revolution. 
 
 "At an early period of the contest, he 
 took a decided part in favor of the colo- 
 nies, in their opposition to the claims of 
 Great Britain ; and his townsmen, placing 
 the highest confidence in his patriotism 
 and integrity, frequently elected him to 
 offices which required great firmness and 
 moderation. In January, 1775, he was 
 chosen one of the representatives of the 
 town of Portsmouth to the piovincial 
 congress, held at Exeter for the purpose 
 of choosing delegates to the general con- 
 gress, which was to meet in Philadelphia 
 on the tenth of May following. 
 
 When the disputes between the two 
 countries were approaching to a crisis, 
 the provincial committee of safety of 
 New Hampshire recommended that a 
 provincial congress should be formed, for 
 the purpose of directing and managing 
 the public afi'airs of the state during the 
 term of six months. The delegates from 
 the town of Portsmouth were five in 
 number, among whom was Captain 
 Whipple. He accordingly attended the 
 meeting of the congress, which convened 
 at Exeter in the beginning of May, 1775, 
 and was elected by that body one of the 
 provincial committee of safety, who were 
 to regulate the afi'airs of government dur- 
 ing the war. In the early part of the 
 
 same year, he was also chosen one of the 
 committee of safety for the town of 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 At the close of the year 1775, the people 
 of New Hampshire assumed a form of 
 government, consisting of a house of 
 representatives and a council of twelve, 
 the president of which was the chief ex- 
 ecutive officer. Mr. Whipple was chosen 
 one of the council, on the sixth of Jan- 
 uary, 177G, and on the twenty third of the 
 same month, a delegate to the general 
 congress : he took his seat on the 29 th of 
 February following. He continued to 
 be re- elected to that distinguished situa- 
 tion in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, and 
 applied himself with diligence and ability 
 to the discharge of its duties, when the 
 military services which he rendered during 
 that period permitted him to be an aoting 
 member of the New Hampshire delegation. 
 In the middle of September, 1779, he 
 finally retired from congress, after having 
 attended, without the least intermission, 
 at his post of duty, from the fifth of the 
 preceding month of November. 
 
 Whilst in congress, he was considered a 
 v.-ry useful and active member, and dis- 
 charged the duties of bis office in a manner 
 aliBe honorable to himself and satisfac- 
 tory to his constituents. In the current 
 and committed business of the house, he 
 displayed equal perseverance, ability, and 
 application. His early pursuits rendered 
 him particularly useful as a member of the 
 committees of marine and of commerce; 
 and, as one of the superintendents of the 
 commissary's and quarter-master's depart- 
 ments, he labored, with much assiduity, 
 to correct the abuses which had prevailed, 
 and to place those establishments upon 
 such a footing as might best conduce to the 
 public service. When the depreciation of 
 the continental currency became excessive, 
 he strongly opposed new emissions of 
 paper, as tending to the utter destruction 
 of public confidence. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Whipple's return to New 
 Hampshire [in 1777], he was called on to 
 exercise his patriotism in scenes and 
 modes yet untried. He had buffeted the 
 waves as a seaman; he tad pursued the 
 peaceful occupations of a merchant; 
 and he had distinguished himself as a 
 Ipgislator and a stateman ; but he was 
 now called on to undergo the severer 
 personal duties, and to gather the more 
 conspicuous laurels of a soldier. The 
 overwhelming force of Burgoyne having 
 compelled the American troops to 
 evacuate their strong post at Ticonderoga, 
 universal alarm prevailed in the north. 
 The committee of the 'New Hampshire 
 Grants,' which had now formed them- 
 selves into a separate state, wrote in the 
 most pressing terms to the committee of 
 
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 safety at Exeter, for assistance. The 
 assembly of New Hampshire was immedi- 
 ately convened, and adopted the most 
 effectual and decisive measures for the 
 defence of the country. They formeel 
 the whole militia of the state into two 
 brigades, giving the command of the first 
 to "William Whipple, and cf the second 
 to General Stark. General Stark was 
 immediately ordered to march, 'to stop 
 the progress of the enemy on our western 
 frontiers', with one-fourth of his brieade, 
 and one-fourth of three regiments belong- 
 ing to the brigade of General Whipple. 
 
 Burgoyne, presuming that no more 
 effectual opposition would be made, 
 flattered himself that he might advance 
 «rithoat much annoyance. To the accom- 
 plishments and experience of his officers, 
 was added a formidable train of artillery, 
 with all the apparatus, stores, and equip- 
 ments, which the nature of the service 
 required. His army was principally 
 composed of veteran corps of the best 
 troops of Britain and Germany, and 
 American loyalists furnished it with 
 spies, scouts, and rangers : a numerous 
 body of savages, in their own dress and 
 with their own weapons, and characteris- 
 tic ferocity, increased the terrors of its 
 approach. 
 
 Flushed by a confidence in his superior 
 force, and deceived in his opinion of the 
 number of friendly loyalists, the British 
 general despatched Lieutenant- Colonel 
 Baum from Fort Edward, with about 
 fifteen hundred of his German troops, 
 and a body of Indians, to overrun the 
 'Grants' as far as the Connecticut river, 
 for the purpose of collecting horses to 
 mount the dragoons, and cattle, both tor 
 labor and provisions. He was encoun- 
 tered at Bennington by the intrepid Stark, 
 who carried the works which he had con- 
 structed, by assault, and killed or cap- 
 tured the greater part of his detachment; 
 a few only escaped into the woods, and 
 saved themselves by flight. 
 
 This victory gave a severe check to the 
 hopes of the enemy, and revived the spir- 
 its of the people after a long depression. 
 The courage of the militia increased with 
 their reputation, and they found that 
 neither British nor German regulars were 
 invincible. Burgoyne was weakened and 
 disheartened by the event, and beginning 
 to perceive the danger of his situation, he 
 now considered the men of New Hamp- 
 soire and the Green Mountains, whom he 
 had viewed with contempt, as dangerous 
 enemies. . . . 
 
 The northern army was now reinforced 
 oy the militia of all the neighboring 
 states. Brigadier General Whipple 
 marched with a great part of his brigade ; 
 and volunteers from all parts of New 
 
 Hamoshire hastened in great numbers to 
 join the standard of General Gates. In 
 the desperate battles of Stillwater and of 
 Saratoga, the troops of New Hampshire 
 gained a large share of the honor due to 
 the American army. The consequence of 
 these engagements was the surrender 
 of General Burgoyne. When the 
 British army capitulated, he was 
 appointed, with Colonel Wilkinson, as the 
 representative of General Gates, to meet 
 two ofticers from General Burgoyne, for 
 the purpose of propounding, discussing, 
 and settling several subordinate articles 
 and regulations springing f r 'm the pre- 
 liminarv proposals of the British general, 
 and which required explanation and pre- 
 cision before the definitive treaty could 
 be properly executed. By concert with 
 Major Kingston, a tent was pitched be- 
 tween the advanced guards of the two 
 armies, where they met Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel Sutherland, and Captain Craig of the 
 forty-seventh regiment, on the afternoon 
 of the sixteenth of October, 1777. Hav- 
 ing produced and exchanged credentials, 
 they proceeded to discuss the objects of 
 their appointment, and in the evening 
 signed the articles of capitulation. After 
 the attainment of this grand object, Gen- 
 eral Whipple was selected as one of the 
 officers, under whose command the British 
 troops were conducted to their destined 
 encampment on Winter hill, near Boston. 
 General Whipple was attended on this 
 expedition by a valuable negro servant 
 named Prince, whom he had imported 
 from Africa many years before. On his 
 way to the army, he told his servant that 
 if they should be called into action, he 
 expected that be would behave like a man 
 of courage, and fight bravely for his 
 country. Prince replied, 'Sir, I have no 
 inducement to fight ; but if I had my liber- 
 ty, I would endeavor to defend it to the 
 last drop of my blood.' The General 
 manumitted him on the spot. . . . 
 
 Nor was the expedition against Bur- 
 goyne the only military affair that Mr. 
 Whipple was engaged in during his ab- 
 sence from congress. 
 
 It may be recollected that in the latter 
 part of the summer [of 1778], when Count 
 d'Estaing had abandoned his project of 
 attacking the British fleet at New York, a 
 plan was formed for his co- operation 
 with General Sullivan in retaking Rhode 
 Island from the British. To aid in this 
 measure the militia of the adjoining 
 states were called out, and the detach- 
 ment of New Hampshire was placed 
 under the the command of General Whip- 
 ple. The scheme, owing to some acci- 
 dent, or the neglect of a proper under- 
 standing, proved unsucessful, and Gen- 
 eral Sullivan was only able to save 
 
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 his army by a judicious retreat. 
 
 During this brief campaign, it is re- 
 corded, that one morning [the 29ih of 
 August, 1778], whilst a numoer of officers 
 were at breakfast at the general's quar- 
 ters, at the position on the north end of 
 the island [on which Newport is situat- 
 ed], the British advanced to an eminence 
 about three quarters of a mile distant; 
 perceiving horses and a guard before the 
 door, they discharged a field piece, which 
 killed one of the horses, and the ball, 
 penetrating the side of the house, passed 
 under the table where the officers were 
 sitting, and shattered the leg of the 
 brigade major of General Whipple's 
 [brigade] in such a manner that amputa- 
 tion was necessary." This officer was 
 Major John Samuel Sherburne, of Ports- 
 mouth, nephew of General Whiople's 
 wife, and brother of Governor LangdonV, 
 who was subsequently a member of Con- 
 gress (^1793-1790). and judge of the 
 United States Court for the district of 
 New Hampshire. He was irreverently 
 called "Cork-leg Sherburne" by the boys 
 of long ago, and afterwards resided in 
 the house on Court street next west of 
 the Court house. 
 
 "The design for which the militia were 
 called out having thus proved abortive, 
 many of them were discharged, and 
 General Whipple with those under his 
 command returned to New Hampshire. 
 According to the pay-roll for the general 
 and staff of his division of volunteers, it 
 appears that he took the command on the 
 2Gth of July, and returned on the 5th of 
 September. 1778." 
 
 "The high consideration in which 
 his services were held by congress did 
 not cease to accompany Mr. Whipple in 
 his retirement. In the beginning of the 
 year 1780 he was appointed a commission- 
 er of the board of admiralty, which office 
 he declined accepting, owing to the 
 situation of his private affairs." 
 
 "In the [same] year, 1780, immediately 
 after his retirement from Congress, he 
 was elected a member of the legislature, to 
 which office he was repeatedly chosen 
 [1780 to 1784] and continued to enjoy the 
 confidence and approbation of his fellow- 
 citizens," 
 
 "In May, 1782, the superintendent of 
 finance, confiding in 'his inclination and 
 abilities to promote the interests of the 
 United States,' appointed Mr. Whipple 
 receiver for the state of New Hampshire, 
 a commission at once arduous and un- 
 popular. It was invariably the rule of 
 Mr. [Robert] Morris to grant this ap- 
 pointment only to men of tried integrity 
 and invincible patriotism. The duty of 
 the office was not only to receive and 
 transmit the sums collected in the state, 
 
 but to expedite that. coUc'tion by all 
 proper means, and incessantly to urge 
 ihe local authorities to comply with the 
 requisitions of congress." This position 
 he retained, at Mr. Morris' solicitation, 
 and much against his own wishes, until Au- 
 gust, 1784. 
 
 In 1782 he was president of a court, 
 organized by Congress, which met at 
 Trenton, New Jersey, to determine the 
 dispute, "between the states of Pennsyl- 
 vania and Connecticut, relative to certain 
 lands at Wyoming," which resulted in the 
 unanimous decision of tbe court that Con- 
 necticut had "no right to the lands in con- 
 troversy." 
 
 General Whipple resigned his military 
 appointment June 20th, 1782, and his fail- 
 ing health prevented him, after this time, 
 "from engaging in the more active scenes 
 of life." 
 
 "On the [same day, the] twentieth of 
 June, 1782, he was appointed a judge of 
 the superior court of judicature" of New 
 Hampshire, and "on the twenty-fifth 
 of December, 1784, ... a justice of the 
 peace and quorum throughout the state." 
 
 General Whipple died in Portsmouth, 
 "on the twenty-eighth day of November, 
 1785, in the fifty-fifth year of his age," 
 and "his body was deposited in the North 
 burying ground in Portsmouth." 
 
 William Whipple married his cousin, 
 Catharine Moflatt, of Portsmouth, who 
 oied in 1823, at the very advanced age of 
 100 years. He left no descendants. It is 
 said he had seven children, all of 
 whom died in infancy, but his son "Wil- 
 liam Whipple, died April 29th, 1773, aged 
 1 year," whose stone stands near his own 
 in the North cemetery, is the only one of 
 whose birth or death we have positive 
 evidence. 
 
 How can I, in the time allotted to me, 
 tell you of the many things in which the 
 men and women of Whipple's blood have 
 taken part from the first settlement of 
 the Colonies until now ! 
 
 It is impossible to do the subject jus- 
 tice; and for information concerning his 
 ancestors and family, I must refer you to 
 the Appendix to "The Presentation of 
 Flags to the Schools of Portsmouth, N. 
 H., October 9 t,h, 1890, by Storer Post," 
 where several letters written by General 
 Whipple during the Revolution, and many 
 details of his life will also be found. [See 
 Addenda ] 
 
 But now, I must at least pay my trib- 
 ute, and acknowledge the indebtedness j 
 of the Post for his sympathy and gener- 
 ous aid in procuring this portrait to that 
 eminent poet, essayist and statesman, 
 James Russell Lowell, great grandson of 
 General Whipple's sister, Mary (Whipple) 
 Traill, whose recent death, 12th August, 
 
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 1891, in Cambridge, Mass., the whole! 
 English speaking world laments ; for he 
 with all his father's family always had a 
 strong interest in Portsmouth, and in the | 
 Portsmouth stock from which they [ 
 sprung. 
 
 Scarcely a year has gone by since the 
 day when Storer Popt presented the Flags 
 to the Schools of Portsmouth, and yet | 
 the comrades who spoke for the Post at i 
 both the Whipple and Farragut schools 
 have passed to a better world. Sincerely 
 mourning their deaths, we know that the 
 people of Portsmouth grieve with us for 
 the good citizens and gallant men who 
 have gone,— for the soldier (George E. 
 Ilodgdon, Lieut. 10th N. H. Infantry, and 
 Capt U. S. C. T.)— brave in war, and in 
 peace the earnest student of the history 
 of our city, our mayor, friend, and the 
 protector of the poor and weak, whose 
 nobility of heart won for him the proud 
 titleof "counsel for the defence,"— for the 
 sailor (Captain Arthur R. Yates, U. S. 
 Navy) — brave in war, without peer in 
 peace, our Naval Bayard, beloved by all 
 who knew him. 
 
 And now, before closing, may I, in 
 behalf of my comrades of the Grand 
 Army and of this meeting, express the 
 hope that before long a marble tab'et may 
 be placed on the front of Whipple .'^chool 
 to tell every passer by its name and that 
 Portsmouth here honors her Signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. Let us 
 trust, also, that before many months a 
 substantial wall, now much needed, may 
 be erected between the land of the Bos- 
 ton and Maine railroad and the south 
 western part of the old North cemetery, 
 where rests not only the ashes of William 
 Whipple, but of many others whose 
 names and fame are very dear to the 
 people of Portsmouth. 
 
 "Mr. Whipple was possessed of a 
 strong mind, and quick discernment: he 
 was easy in his manners, courteous in his 
 deportment, correct in his habits, and 
 constant in his friendships. He enjoyed 
 larough life a great share of the public 
 confidence, and although his early educa- 
 tion was limited, his natural good sense, 
 and accurate observations, enabled him to 
 discharge the duties of the several offices 
 with which he was intrusted, with credit 
 to himself and benefit to the public. In 
 the various scenes of life in which he en- 
 gaged, he constantly manifested au honest 
 and persevering spirit of emulation, which 
 conducted him with rapid strides to dis- 
 tinction. As a sailor, he speedily at- 
 tained the highest rank in the profession ; 
 a3 a merchant, he was circumspect and 
 industrious; as a congressman, he was 
 firm and fearless ; as a legislator, he was 
 honest and able ; as a commander, he was 
 
 cool and courageous; as a judge, he was 
 dignified and impartial; and as a member 
 of many subordinate public offices, he 
 was alert and persevering. Few men 
 rose more rapidly and worthily in the 
 scale of society, or bore their new honors 
 with more modesty and propriety." 
 
 One hundred and fifteen years have 
 passed since William Whipple pledged his 
 life, his fortune, and his sacred honor, in 
 behalf of our National liberty and free- 
 dom ; but while love of country and the 
 flag shall be cherished among us, let us 
 trust that the teachers and pupils of 
 the Whipple school will keep his memory 
 green, and on each recurring Memorial 
 Day and Fourth of July, will garland his 
 grave with flowers, in perpetual memory 
 of the fact that by his hand the people of 
 Portsmouth signed, and through him 
 claim their share, in the glory of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 At the conclusion of this address Com- 
 mander Curtis then spoke as follows : 
 
 I now call upon Comrade Joseph A. 
 Smith, a gallant representative of the U. 
 S. Navy, who generously gave the pro- 
 ceeds of his brilliant lecture delivered in 
 this hall one year ago, on the memorable 
 fight between the U. S. S. Kearsarge and 
 the Confederate cruiser Alabama, to- 
 wards the expense of procuring these 
 portraits, to address you on the life and 
 career of that greatest naval hero of 
 modern times, David Glasgow Farragut. 
 
 Ladies and G- ntlemen, I have the pleas- 
 ure of introducing to you Comrade Joseph 
 A. Smith, Pay Inspector, U. S. Navv. 
 
 Addreaa of Comrade Joseph A. Smith. 
 
 Mr Chairman : 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : — I know not by 
 what chance it has happened that I have 
 been requested to speak at ths p'esenta- 
 tion of a portrait of Admiral Farragut to 
 the City of Portsmouth, for one of her 
 public schools, unless the explanation 
 may be found in the fact that I con- 
 tributed my humble share to the efforts of 
 others in securing the painting. 
 
 Id a letter to his son, a few days after 
 the battle to which he refers, Farragut 
 wrote: -'The victory of the Kearsarge 
 over the Alabama raised me up. I would 
 sooner have fought that fight than any 
 ever fought on the ocean 
 
 The triumph of the Kearsarpe was 
 
 grand I go for Winslow's 
 
 promotion." 
 
 My part in the procurement of the 
 portrait was the delivery of a public 
 address on that battle. I was not then 
 aware of Farragui's sentiments on that 
 subject and it is therefore doubly grati- 
 
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 fying to know that his enthusiastic words 
 made that subject peculiarly appropriate 
 for that occasion. 
 
 But no words of mine can be made 
 equally appropriate for this occasion ; nor 
 can they compensate for the silence of 
 one who as frienri, shipmate and aid to 
 our great admiral, in the height of his 
 fame, was fittingly selected to sound our 
 hero's virtues as a man and his transcen- 
 dent genius as a naval commander, 
 
 Alas ! the lips of our genial comrade 
 are sealed by death. 
 
 At the flig presentation to our public 
 schools Comrade Yates awoke our slum- 
 bering patriotism by the fervor of a 
 speech in which he pointed out the duty 
 of the citizen to the state. 
 
 Could he speak to us his felicitous 
 phrases would glow wi h his love and 
 admiration for his former commander, 
 Farragut. 
 
 For many reasons the loss of Captain 
 Arthur Reid Yates touches the heart of 
 every comrade and citizen who knew him, 
 with the gloom of mourning. 
 
 In his domestic relat ons, as a genial 
 companion, an exemplary and patriotic 
 citizen, as a faithful friend and as an 
 efficient officer, our comrade may have 
 patterned after our great Admiral. No 
 better exemplar can be found among the 
 great naval heroes of any age. 
 
 It is because of Admiral Farragut's 
 virtues as a man and his merits as an 
 officer that Storer Post tenders his por- 
 trait as an artistic symbol of those virtues 
 and merits which should be emulated by 
 the pupils of the public schools. 
 
 Farragut's life was crowded with 
 stirring episodes. Those of his early 
 naval life conduced to the formation of a 
 sterling, manly character. Born in 1801, 
 he entered the navy as midshipman when 
 a lad only nine years of age, and in 18U 
 he sailed on the Essex, 32 gnns, with 
 Sailing Master David Porter commanding. 
 
 Shortly afterward war was declared by 
 the United States against Great Britain, 
 and the Essex began her hostile opera- 
 tions by capturing a British brig with 150 
 troops on board ; then, after a contest of 
 only eight minutes, she captured the Eng- 
 lish sloop of war Alert, 20 guns; next 
 she captured the British government 
 packet Nocton with $55,000. specie; 
 then amid terrific storms and hyster- 
 ical prayers, she weathered Cape Horn ; 
 on the Pacific she captured a Peruvian 
 guarda costa, of 15 guns, that was an 
 ally of the British Navy ; following 
 that came the recapture of a prize of the 
 guarda costa, named the Barclay ; after 
 that the Essex captured a British whaler, 
 Montezuma, with 1400 barrels of sperm 
 oil, and the British whalers Georgiana 
 
 and Policy; the Essex equipped the 
 Georgiana as a new cruiser and she in tnrn 
 captured three other prizes from the 
 enemy ; finally the Essex was captured by 
 the British vessels, Pboebe, a frigate 
 with 49 guns of diflferent calibres and 320 
 men, and the Cherub, a sloop of war with 
 28 gu s of diff"erent calibres and 180 men, 
 after a sanguinary battle of two and one 
 half hours. 
 
 The prize Barclay alluded to was sent 
 to Valparaiso, with young Farragat, then 
 a boy of twelve years, as prize master, 
 accompanied by the former captain of the 
 Barclay as nautical advisor. The latter's 
 reputation, as the possessor of an arbitra- 
 ry will and a peppery temper, inspired 
 his subordinates with genuine fear. 
 
 When our youthful hero expressed a 
 wish to haye the main top sail filled away, 
 the hot-tempered old merchant ship mas- 
 ter swore that he would shoot the first 
 man who should dare to touch a rope 
 without his orders and went below for 
 his pistols. 
 
 The boy prize master succeeded in hav- 
 ing the main top sail filled away and 
 notified the defiant old salt not to come 
 on deck with his pistols unless he wanted 
 to go overboard,— and thus the young 
 commander successfully enforced his 
 authority. 
 
 After the capture of the Alert, the pris- 
 oners of that ship, on the Essex, medi- 
 tated a mutiny which young Farragut 
 detected and reported to his commander 
 who frustrated the plot by a clever strat- 
 agem. 
 
 Our boy hero, as prisoner, boarded the 
 British frigate Pha;t)e in tears, but dis- 
 covering that one of the English sailors 
 bad appropriated his pet pig, the salty 
 stream from Farragut's eyes evaporated 
 in the heat of indignation, and, accepting 
 a challenge to fight the British tar for the 
 possession of the porky prize, the plucky 
 little American thrashed his adversary 
 and recovered the squealing Murphy, (for 
 that was the pig's name,) in a fistic circle 
 formed by the Phoebe's British crew. 
 
 Farragut was sent to New York with 
 the rest of the Essex's crew, on board the 
 Essex Jr. 
 
 I have briefiy rehearsed these inciden s, 
 not because they are new, but because 
 they form the Initiation of Farragut, be- 
 fore the age of thirteen, into the unpar- 
 alleled, eventful and brilliantly successful 
 career in the American navy, that drew 
 forth the applause of the civilized world. 
 
 The romantic cruise of the Essex not 
 only gave this young sailor experience in 
 every phase of naval life, but it also 
 opened to him broad vistas of his glorious 
 future. 
 
 Probably the experience ot no naval 
 
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 commander in chief, living today, equals 
 in variety and usefulness, that through 
 •which Farragut passed before reaching 
 the age of thirteen years. 
 
 But it was the deeds of later life that 
 made him famous. 
 
 After returning to New York on the 
 Essex jr he was assigned to the 74 line 
 of battle ship Independence, with Bain- 
 bridge; to the Washington under Chaun- 
 cey ; to the Mosquito fleet, under Porter 
 again, 1823—4; to the command of the 
 schooner Ferret at the age of 22 years ; 
 in 1825 he was assigned to the Brandy- 
 wine which conveyed Lafayette home to 
 France after his visit to the United 
 States; then he was assigned to the 
 Brazilian station as executive of the 
 Delaware and afterwards to the command 
 of the Boxer and the Decatur ; in 1838 he 
 commanded the Erie at Vera Cruz; dur- 
 ing the Mexican war 1847. he commanded 
 the Saratoga; in 1854 he established the 
 navy yard at Mare Island, California; in 
 18G0 he commanded the Brooklyn In the 
 Gulf of Mexico ; and later, when our 
 Great Rebellion broke forth, he was liv- 
 ing in his adopted home, Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Amid the fluctuating opinions of the 
 time there was no wavering doubt in Far- 
 ragut's mind. With him it was not a 
 choice of states or of flags. He followed 
 the line of duty, and the flag that he 
 had sworn to support, the fl^g for which 
 he fought in his cherub days. 
 
 Severing the social ties that bound him 
 to Norfolk, he moved with his family to 
 Hastings on the Hudson in New York, 
 and in 1862 the government assigned 
 him to the command of the West Gulf 
 Squadron. It was in tils capacity that 
 his splendid powers shone forth, and con 
 firmed the evidence of high qualities as 
 a naval commander that might have been 
 observed by an examination of his pi*e- 
 vious conduct. 
 
 His passage by Forts Jackson and St. 
 Philip, in 1862, with his fleet of wooden 
 ships, and the capture of New Orleans; 
 his passage by the batteries of Vicksburg 
 in the same year; the capture of Galves- 
 ton and Sabine City ; his passage by Port 
 Hudson in 1863; the siege of Vicksburg; 
 the siege of Port Hudson ; his passage 
 by Fori 8 Morgan and Gaines at the en- 
 trance to Mobile Bay, 1864, are among 
 the notable events of the rebellion. 
 
 His commission as Rear Admiral was 
 accompanied by the thanks of Congress 
 to himself and the ofiicers and men of 
 his squadron for the gallantry displayed 
 in passing Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. 
 
 Subsequently, with the view of con 
 ferring on him still higher honors, the 
 grade of vice admiral was created on the 
 20th of December 1864, and on the follow- 
 
 ing day the president named Farragut for 
 the office and the nomination was imme- 
 diately confirmed by the senate- 
 
 A f-hort period of profound peace had 
 enabled the people to more justly estimate 
 the services rendered to his country by 
 our first vice admiral, and congress, on 
 the 25th of July, 1866, cr.'ated the grade 
 of admiral, and, for the first time in our 
 country bestowed that rank on our al- 
 ready honored nav^sl captain. 
 
 Some of us remember how the brilliant 
 naval exploits of Farragut fairly startled 
 our waiting people into paroxysms of ap- 
 plause and the general demand that was 
 made upon the government for the exalted 
 honors it bestowed. 
 
 I cannot undertake to rehearse them at 
 length, but they have placed Farragut at 
 the very top of the ladder of fame as a 
 naval fighter. 
 
 No better estimate can be formed of 
 public sentiment toward Farragut at the 
 time of these exploits, than by citing the 
 opinion of his contemporary, General 
 Butler, of the volunteer army, who wrote 
 in a note of congratulations on the battle 
 of Mobile : "I need not use the language 
 of compliment where none is needed. It 
 is all said in one word : It was like you. 
 Reminding me so much of the passage 
 of the Mississippi forts, was it wonderful 
 that, boy-like, in my tent all alone, when 
 the rebel journal was brought in and the 
 official telegram read that you and seven- 
 teen of your vessels had passed Fort Mor- 
 gan, I called out, — 'Three cheers for 
 Farragut.' They were given with a will 
 that brought in my staff" and orderlies, 
 who thought their general had gone crazy, 
 perhaps from a sun stroke, whereas it was 
 only a stroke of good luck, of high daring 
 and noble enterprise, quite as brilliant as 
 anything the sun could do. Let me assure 
 you, Admiral, that those cheers, the first 
 given on the occasion in the loyal north, 
 are not done ringing yet; but every hill- 
 top is resounding with them, as they are 
 caught up frono hamlet to hamlet, and 
 city to city, of a grateful nation. I speak 
 no language of hyperbole, and only the 
 words of sincere admiration, when I say I 
 envy you, alone of all men, for the place 
 you have in the hearts of your country- 
 men." 
 
 Farragut has sometimes been called the 
 American Nelson, in consequence of the 
 brilliancy of his achievements, but, ex- 
 cept in the respect that both were skillful 
 seamen and naval commanders of great 
 courage, and fertility of resource, the 
 resemblance ends. 
 
 A man may possess fighting qualities 
 without possessing the elements of true 
 heroism. It may be well for our young 
 friends to know that the highest heroism 
 
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 partakes of something better and nobler 
 than the mere violence of battle for con- 
 quest, for the so-called honor of kings, 
 for the applause of senseless multitudes, 
 for the acquirement of titles and rank, or 
 for the gain of gold. 
 
 The cruel gladiator that fights to kill ; 
 the brutal pugilist that Hghts to beat his 
 adversary into insensibility; the savage 
 Indian that fights for scalps ; the lawless 
 pirate that fights for plunder, all possess 
 the courage to fight yet they are not he- 
 roes. 
 
 True heroism partakes of all the virtues 
 that impel men to deeds of self sacrifice 
 to benefit their fellowmen, and the 
 greater the virtues of such men the 
 greater and truer is their hnroism. 
 
 Courage, added to these, perfects the 
 hero. Heroism may be clothed in the 
 vestments of the priest, or wrapped in 
 the robes of a sister of mercy, or covered 
 by the jacket of a schoolboy, 
 
 Luther, the preacher , believed in per- 
 sonal devils, but he was not afraid of 
 them — he defied them. Carlisle tells us 
 that Luther, when translating one of his 
 psalms, when worn with sickness and 
 fasting, there rose before him a dreadful 
 image that te took for the evil one to 
 forbid his work; Luther started up with 
 fiend defiance, flung bis inkstand at the 
 spectre and it disappeared. 
 
 "The devil is aware," he writes, "that 
 this does not proceed out of fear in me. 
 I have seen and defied numerous dtvils. 
 Duke George of Liepzig, a violent enemy 
 of Luthers, is not equal to one devil. If 
 I had business in Liepzig I would ride 
 into Liepzig though it lained Duke 
 Georges for nine days running." 
 
 And Carlisle adds, "what a reservoir of 
 dukes to run into." 
 
 This was high heroism, because Luther 
 braved not only visible, but invisible evil, 
 and he believed that he braved the 
 veritable devil ia the sacred cause of 
 saving his fellowmen from eternal associa- 
 tion with that cloven-footed tempter. 
 
 What atypical young hero Mrs. Hemans 
 depicts in Casablanca, the boy sailor, 
 who, charged b? his father not to leave 
 his post in battle stood steadfast amid 
 the terro's of his burning ship that was 
 blown to atoms by the explosion of the 
 powder magazine. And "the noblest 
 thing that perished there was that young, 
 faithful heart". 
 
 It has been shown that Farragut as a 
 boy on the Essex displayed the same 
 heroic qualities that shone so resplendent- 
 ly in his maturer years. 
 
 It was the moral strength of the boy's 
 nature that supported him when prisoner 
 of war, and weeping, he stepped into a 
 fing of Englisl) sajlors on the deplj of the 
 
 PhcEbe and triumphantly fought against 
 odds for his darling pig. 
 
 That was heroism because he was im- 
 pelled by the spirit that braved every- 
 thing in defence of his conception of 
 right, regardless of consequences. 
 
 We learn also, from his instructor, 
 that in his youth he had a "manly way of 
 thinking." 
 
 When the rebellion was threatened and 
 an acquaintance warned him that he 
 "could not live in Norfolk", he replied, — 
 "well then I can live somewhere else." 
 
 To his wife he said : "I shall stick to 
 the flig. This act of mine may cause 
 years of separation from your family; so 
 you must decide quickly whether you will 
 go north or remain here." The decision 
 was made and he moved with his family 
 to Hastings on the Hudson. This resolve 
 was true heroism. 
 
 At this time he was sixty years of age 
 and had already attained the highest rank 
 of our naval service. This action was 
 a sacrifice. 
 
 Amid the strongest inducements, that 
 his southern friends could ofler him, to 
 renounce his allegiance to his government 
 he followed the dictates of conscience and 
 adopted as his guide and motto Loyalty 
 and Duty to his country and to his God. 
 
 He wrote : "God alone decides the con- 
 test. He who dies doing his duty to his 
 country, and at peace with his God has 
 played out the drama of life to the best 
 advantage." "I trust in Him as a merci- 
 ful being ; but really in war it seems as 
 if we ought hardly to expect mercy when 
 men are destroying one another upon 
 questions of which He alone is jndge. 
 Motive seems to constitute right and 
 wrong. ' After his victory at New 
 Orleans he wrote : "My dearest wife and 
 boy : I am so agitated that I can scarcely 
 write, and shall only tell you that it has 
 pleased Almighty God to preserve my 
 life through a fire such as the world has 
 scarcely known." 
 
 Later he wrote: "Senator McDougal, I 
 hear, has asked for a vote of thanks for 
 me. Blessed is he who expecteth nothing , 
 for he shall not be disappointed. I regret 
 that Bailey did not get the thanks of 
 congress." 
 
 In these lines to his wife and son is 
 something pathetic: "In the course of 
 human longevity I have not long to live, 
 and, although it would be most agreeable 
 to spend it with you both it is our place 
 to submit to His will and do our duty." 
 
 When in front of Vicksburg he wrote :"I 
 trust that God will smile on our efibrts as 
 He has done before. I think more should 
 have been left to my discretion ; but I 
 hope for the best, and pray God to pro- 
 tect our poor sailors from harm." 
 
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 At New Orleans he wrote : "Don't give 
 yourself any uneasiness about any one's 
 
 trying to undermine me I fortify 
 
 myself as well as I can and trust to my 
 honesty for the rest." 
 
 How our sympathy reaches backward 
 to this grand, uncomplaining man as we 
 read the foUowine from a letter to his 
 wife, in a boy's handwriting; "Father's 
 eyes have given out; so I will finish this 
 letter. He has been much worried at 
 these things, (referring to certain naval 
 disasters,) but still tries to bear it like a 
 philosopher. He knows he has done all 
 in his power to. avert it, with the vessels 
 at his disposal. If the government had 
 only let him take Mobile when he wished 
 to, the Oreto would never have run out." 
 After passing Port Hudson he wrote; 
 "Would to God that I only knew that 
 our friends on the other ships were well 
 as we are. . . . You know my creed : I 
 never send others in advance when there 
 is a doubt, and being one on whom the 
 country has bestowed its greatest honors 
 I thought I ought to take the riik which 
 belongs to them." 
 
 In a letter home from the Red river he 
 wrote : "You say you think i am getting 
 too ambitious. You do me great injustice. 
 • ... I am much more apt to lose than 
 to win honors by what I do. God knows 
 that there is not a more humble individual 
 than myself. I shall go to church to- 
 morrow, and try to return suitable 
 thanks for the many blessings that have 
 been bestowed upon me." 
 
 Before Mobile he wrote: "My dearest 
 wife : I write and leave this letter for 
 you. I am going into Mobile Bay in the 
 morning, if God is my leader, as I hope 
 He is, and in Him I place my trust. If 
 He thinks it is the proper place for me to 
 die, I am ready to submit to His will, in 
 that as in all other things." 
 
 At the attack on Mobile Farragut's 
 leading ship began to back, obstructing 
 his line and silencing the batteries of the 
 Union ships while the whole of Mobile 
 Point was a living flame. 
 
 Farragut hailed the backing ship with 
 "What's the trouble?" "Torpedoes" was 
 the reply. 
 
 Like an electric flash Farragut cried, 
 "Blow the torpedoes ! Four Bells ! Captain 
 Drayton, go ahead ! Jouett, full speed !" 
 andjtheJHartford pushed forward to the 
 head of the line, thus averting failure 
 and defeat and leading on to victory. 
 
 The Confederate ram Tennessee was 
 deemed impregnable. She was shot at, 
 rammed and hammered by the Brooklyn, 
 the Lackawanna, the Monongahela, the 
 Kennebec and the Oneida without eflect 
 and then she retired under the guns of 
 Fort Morgan. 
 
 When Farragut had passed the fort, the 
 ram again left her anchorage and steered 
 directly for the flag ship. The Hartford 
 did not wait for the attack but took the 
 aggressive and following the Lackawanna, 
 struck the Tennessee a fearful blow and 
 delivered a broadside of shot without ap- 
 parent eflect on the monster ram. 
 
 In the mean time the Chickasaw, the 
 Winnebago and Manhattan hammered her 
 with heavy shot until, at last, her steering 
 apparatus, smokestack and port shutters 
 were shot away, her commander was 
 wounded and in this condition showed the 
 white flag and surrendered. Farragut 
 mourned over the loss of his brave 
 men. 
 
 When the impregnability of the ram is 
 considered, together with the fatal danger 
 of submerged torpedoes that obstructed 
 available passages; and the powerful 
 batteries of the forts that bore upon the 
 Union Fleet, there is good reason to 
 believe that this victory was won against 
 odds equal to any that Nelson overcame, 
 even at Aboukir, which is called his 
 masterpiece, or at Trafalgar on the 
 Victory, when he received his mortal 
 wound. 
 
 How unconsciously Farragut reveals 
 his reverent and modest nature when he 
 writes of this unparalleled victory : — "The 
 Almighty has smiled on me once more." 
 
 Again he wrote home :— ' As I told you 
 on the flfth, it pleased God to grant me 
 one of the hardest earned victories of my 
 
 life over the rebel ram Tennessee 
 
 God bless you and make you thankful for 
 this victory as I am." 
 
 As a Naval fighter Farragut's prowess 
 was most conspicuously displayed, as 
 Nelson's was. agaiost seemingly over- 
 whelming odds, and in the most critical 
 moments of battle. 
 
 This power to act promptly and efiect- 
 ively in acrisia is pointed out by Rear 
 Admiral Hamilton of the British Navy in 
 his observations on the action of Mobile : 
 "It appears to me that a disastrous de- 
 feat was converted into victory by (in so 
 unexpected a contingency,) the quickness 
 of eye and power of rapid decision Far- 
 ragut possessed, which saw at a glance 
 the only escape from the dilemma the 
 fleet were placed in, and which can only 
 be acquired by a thorough practical 
 knowledge in the management of fleets, 
 and for want of which no amount of 
 theoretical knowledge, however desirable 
 in many respects, can make up in the 
 moment of difficulty." 
 
 Invaluable as experience was to Farra- 
 gut, it was the motive force of faith in 
 God and the faculty to do his work, that 
 enabled him to utilize his experience and 
 made him @o formidable in war. 
 
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 Compare him with our modern Sir 
 Joseph Porters, the men who acquire 
 vheir nautical skill by sticlsing fast to 
 their deslis, aud when the breezes blow, 
 generally go below ; such merely ambitious 
 men who travesty every age and beg to 
 acTorn themselves with the titles and 
 trappings of rank while they amuse 
 the thoughtless with punch and judy 
 antics. 
 
 This type of man has been described by 
 a great authority on heroes, as one who 
 struggles to "force everybody, as it were 
 begging everybody for God's sake to 
 acknowledge him a great man, and set 
 him over the heads of men ! Such a 
 creature is among the wretchedest sights 
 seen under the sun. A great man ! 
 A poor, morbid, prurient, empty man ! 
 Fitter for the ward of a hospital than for 
 a throne among men ! 
 
 How such mean, tyrannical, selfish men 
 pale into insignificance before the blazing 
 whiteness of Farragut's character ! 
 
 He did not bid for applause. He did 
 not beg to be set on a pedestal because he 
 paraded in a cocked hat. His heart and 
 mind were absorbed in unselfish thoughts 
 aflecting the welfare of his country. He 
 was content with the operations of his 
 own genius in obedience to the dictates 
 of conscience. His self-denial, his single- 
 ness of purpose in the accomplishments 
 of his great achievements, raise him to 
 the level of the grand, masterful heroes 
 of history. 
 
 For unrivalled nautical skill: daring 
 enterprises ; fearless, intrepid action ; in- 
 exhaustible fertility of resources in battle, 
 Farragut and Nelson bear comparison. 
 
 In reverence, serenity, pacience, hu- 
 manity, prudence, sagacity, fidelity; in 
 the intricacies of diplomacy and the ele- 
 ments of statesmanship, Farragut's supe- 
 riority to Nelson mast be conceded. 
 
 As we read his letters we can imagine 
 that, had Farragut been a priest and stood 
 in Luther's place when the Devil intruded 
 his revolting person to interfere with his 
 work, Farragut, like Luther, would have 
 llung his inkstand at His Satanic Majesty 
 in full faith that the missile would have 
 been guided by an overruling Power 
 straight to some vital spot, as the smooth 
 pebble of David went to the brain of the 
 Philistine of Gath. 
 
 So, had Farragut stood as a boy beside 
 Casablanca, he would have perished at his 
 post with the same fidelity that distin- 
 guished him on the Essex. 
 
 Like Cromwell he entered into battle 
 with sublime trust in an overruling Prov- 
 idence and with a calm but indomitable 
 resolution that carried him forward tri 
 
 Farragut cheered his men in war with 
 words of pious but sanguine exhortation. 
 
 Nelson led his desperate crew, in per- 
 son, to the battle that made him an 
 Admiral, with the cry. "Westminster 
 Abbey or Victory !" 
 
 Farragut's words suggest the spirit of 
 a Christian knight. 
 
 Nelson's cry suggests the spirit of a 
 buccaneer. 
 
 As a Christian knight Farragut died 
 here in your own city after he had heard 
 the thanks and praises of his countrymen 
 and the kings, emperors and princes of 
 the Old World had done honor to his 
 virtues and those achievements that shed 
 so much lustre on his country's flag. 
 
 But though I had tbe talent of a Bos- 
 well to embalm the glory of Farragut in 
 literature I must not detain you. 
 
 Who shall do justice to the memory of 
 our rugged sea-king ? Who can paint 
 his virtues ? 
 
 "To guard a title that was rich betoie, 
 To gild refined erold, to paint the Jily, 
 To throw a perfume on thu violet, 
 To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
 Unto I he rainbow,. 
 Is wastelul and ridiculous excess." 
 
 As we turn from the portrait of Far- 
 ragut our thoughts will revert not to the 
 blue and gold that adorned his form , but 
 to the man within, to the spirit of 
 good and patriotism that was his crown- 
 ing glory. We love the man for what he 
 was. 
 
 "For others shape the marble loim, 
 
 The molten image cast; 
 But paint him in the battle storm, 
 
 Lashed to Ms flag-ship's mast. 
 
 Now then your broadsides shipmates all, 
 With grape well loaded down ! 
 
 May garlands tilled with sunshine fall 
 To gird his silvered crown ! 
 
 I give the name that lits him best- 
 Ay, better than his own— 
 
 The sea-king ol the sovereiga west 
 Who made his mast a throne." 
 
 Immediately after the conclusion of 
 Comrade Smith's address. Commander 
 Curtis again arose and in behalf of Storer 
 Post made the following 
 
 Address of Presentation. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : The three 
 cardinal principles of the organization 
 known as the Grand Army of the Republic 
 are Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. 
 
 To preserve the memories of a war 
 which has settled for all time the per- 
 manency of the union of states and the 
 supremacy of national government; to 
 renew the fraternities of a comradeship 
 
 umphantly and resistlessly over the most cemented in camp, bivouac and battle; to 
 formidable obstacles. relieve the necessities of distressed sold- 
 
•2u 
 
 iers and sailors and the widows and 
 orphans of those who yielded up their 
 lives on the altar of their country ; to 
 obey the laws of the land ; to inculcate 
 lessons of loyalty and patriotism in the 
 generations to come after us, that equal 
 rights and national unity shall forever be 
 maintained, are the objects of our associ- 
 ation. 
 
 The crowning principle is Loyalty. 
 
 It is for this that on each recurring 
 springtime the survivors of that once vast 
 army, in every village and hamlet of our 
 country, strew the graves of the patriot 
 dead with the choicest of earth's flowers ; 
 for this, above their countless mounds, in 
 sunshine and storm, is kept waving the 
 starry emblem of the nation, rescued and 
 restored by loyalty ; for tnis, on hillside 
 and plain, throughout the length and 
 breadth of our fair land, rise memorials 
 in bronze, granite and marble, object 
 lessons of loyalty for all commg time. 
 
 Gentlemen :— It is lor the perpetuation 
 of this principle that Storer I'ost has 
 presented to every school building in our 
 city, the beautiful flag of our country, 
 with the hope that the daily sight of its 
 star-emblazoned folds may incite in the 
 youthful beholder, patriotic ardor, a 
 desire to learn the story of the sacrifice of 
 life, limb, and treasure to preserve It, 
 and a devotion to maintain the principles 
 for which it stands. And if you will 
 pardon me, it is for this that Storer Post 
 has long hoped and still hopes, that the 
 collection of valuable war pictures and 
 portraits which adorn the walls of Grand 
 Army hall, and the many historic relics 
 being constantly gathered by our organ- 
 ization, and of which this grand old city 
 is so rich in store, may some day, while 
 we are yet on this side of the eternal 
 camping ground, be gathered into a me- 
 morial hall where forever they shall tell 
 the story of our country's rise and pro- 
 gress more eloquently than tongue or pen. 
 
 For this, Gentlemen of the City Govern- 
 ment, we memorialized your predecessors 
 to designate the new school structures 
 by the names of those illustrious patriots 
 of different eras, of whose distinguished 
 lives Comrades Foster and Smith have so 
 eloquently spoken. 
 
 That our petition was speedily, heartily, 
 and unanimously granted is a matter of 
 glorious record, of pride to our citizens 
 and extreme gratification to Storer Post; 
 and to show the appreciation of my com- 
 rades, I will call upon Comrade Charles 
 H. Besselievre, Adjutant of the Post, to 
 read extracts from the records of the 
 meetings of Oct. 1, 15, and Nov. 19, 1890. 
 
 I have the pleasure of introducing to 
 you Comrade Charles H. Besselievre, Ad- 
 jutant of Storer Post. 
 
 Adjutant Bessellevre's Remarkst 
 
 Adjutant Besselievre, then stepped 
 forward and read the ofticial extracts of 
 the Post concerning the portraits, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 "At a regular meeting of Storer Post, 
 held on the evening of Oct. 1, 1890, the 
 following resolutions, oflered by Comrade 
 Joseph Foster, wore unanimously adopt- 
 ed: 
 
 JiKSOLVED. That storer Post. No. 1, Dewart- 
 ineni of New Hanipslnre, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, graifflully ncknowleilKfi^ the cour- 
 tCfy of tlie Hoard of Mayor and Aldermen of 
 tne Oily of rortsiuoiilh in adopting; the names 
 of our Poitsmouib signer of the Declaration 
 of Indepen'ience, and of America's great Ad- 
 miral, tor tlie two new school bouses, as sug- 
 ffested by the Post; and congratulates the 
 IJoard upon the general satisfaction and ap- 
 pioval with which these names, so closely 
 conn(!Cte(l with the history of our country 
 and so full of lessons of manly heroism and 
 l)alr)olic devotion, have teen received by our 
 citizens. 
 
 Uesolved. That a copy of the foregoing 
 resolution be ollicially forwarded to the Board 
 of Mayor and Aldernjen, and a copy be fur- 
 nished the city press. 
 
 On Oct. 15, 1890, it was voted that the 
 Post present oil portraits of General 
 William "Whipple and Admiral David G. 
 Farragut to the schools bearing their 
 names. 
 
 On Nov. 19, 1890, the following resolu- 
 tion of Comrade Joseph Foiter was unan- 
 imously adopted. 
 
 Resolvkd. Tiiat the Committee on Enter- 
 tainment be instructed to arrange with the 
 celebrated portrait painter Mr U. D. Tenney 
 ot Concord, N. I( , to paint suitable oil por- 
 traits ot Gen. William Whipple and Admiral 
 David G. Farragut for the Post, to have the 
 paintings properly framed and suitably 
 marko 1 witli name and by whom presented, 
 and date, on a separate tablet or otherwise; 
 and when they are completed to arrange for 
 their public presentation by the Post, through 
 Its commander, to the City of Portsmouth; to 
 be hung in the room occupied by the senior 
 class at the Whipple and Farragut schools 
 respectively, as long as the school houses 
 shall bland." 
 
 Commander Curtis resumed his address, 
 as follov.'s : 
 
 PreBentation Address Continaedi 
 
 The foremost portrait artist of New 
 England U. D. Tenney painted them 
 and is proud of his work. No expenditure 
 of time, money or skill has been spared 
 to make them the best obtainable. Mr. 
 Tenney could tell you of visits to New 
 York at the expense of the Post to 
 examine the celebrated portraits of Ad- 
 miral Farragut in the rooms of the Union 
 League, University Club, and that in the 
 possession of the family of Loyal Farra- 
 gut, son of the Admiral, all of which 
 were unsatisfactory, and how, dnally, a 
 
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 small portrait in the possession of the 
 i^overnment, from which was engraven 
 tne vignette on the new $100. treasury 
 note was found, and judged to t)e tae 
 best likeness, by those most familiar with 
 the Admiral in his later years, in existence. 
 From this picture the artist obtain- 
 ed the foundation for the splendid portrait 
 before you. 
 
 The color of hair, eyes, clothing and 
 tinting of flesh are pronounced ab'4oiutely 
 perfect, by those best qualified to judge. 
 
 The portrait of Geueral Whipple is 
 from that in the possession Mf Alexander 
 H. Ladd, Esq , of this city, by Mr. Tcn- 
 ney, from the original painting by 
 Trumbull, of the signers of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, in the i)OS8es8ion 
 of Yale College, and is considered by 
 connoiseurs a masterpiece in portrait 
 piintin<;. 
 
 Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen :— My com- 
 rades seeh not honor, glory, popular 
 praise or favor in this undertaking. 
 The exuberance and enthusiasm of youth 
 have not prompted their action. It is 
 rather from the calm judgment of men 
 who have seen their country r«;Qt and 
 torn and nearly dismembered by treason ; 
 who marched into the jaws of death to 
 preserve the heritage transmitted by their 
 fathers, and who know the value of the 
 fruits of that great struggle, and would 
 seek to bestow them as losacies on their 
 children and their children's children. 
 Men die and their deeds are forgotten ; 
 but principles live forever. If from 
 this night's action the youth of Ports- 
 mouth are incited to a greater degree of 
 loyalty to country and a firmer fidelity to 
 the duties of citizenshii), we shall have 
 found ample reward. 
 
 And now, Mr. Mayor, in the name of 
 my comrades of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, representing as they do the 
 soldiers and sailors of this city who de- 
 fended the authority and integrity of the 
 Nation, I present through you, to the 
 City of Tortsmonth, for the school build- 
 ings bearing their names, these portraits 
 of General William Whipple and Admiral 
 David Glasgow Farragut. 
 
 Chairman Berry then arose and in these 
 brief words made 
 
 Jntrodaotion of the Mayor. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen :— It now be- 
 comes my duty to call upon His Honor 
 the Mayor to accept in behalf of the City, 
 at the hands of Storer Post, and to pre- 
 sent to the Board of Instruction, these 
 two beautiful gifts which have been eo 
 eloquently bestowed upon us this evening. 
 
 It now gives me much pleasure to intro- 
 duce John J. Laskey, Mayor of Ports- 
 mouth. 
 
 The Bf ayor'a Responve. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, 
 Commander Curtis, oflicers and com- 
 rades : 
 
 These portraits, tho gift of Storer 
 Post, for whicli we thank you, I accept in 
 behalf of the city to be placed In the 
 school buildings bearing their honored 
 names. 
 
 General Whipple, soldiers know, how 
 he led the army to victory ; history tells 
 us so. 
 
 Admiral Farragut, sailors know, how 
 he led his lleet to victory wherever boats 
 could go. No braver man on land or sea 
 can any nation show. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Board of Instruction, 
 by request of Storer Post their gift now 
 the property of the city I leave with 
 you. 
 
 The brevity of His Honor's address was 
 persooified terseness, and happilv ex- 
 pressed the sentiment of the community 
 in receiving such elegaat tributes to 
 patriotism and heroism. 
 
 His presentation in turn to the district 
 committees of the Board of instruction 
 was equally brief and felicitous, and gen- 
 erously recognized by the audience. 
 
 Acceptance by the School*. 
 
 llev. Henry E. Hovey was then intro- 
 duced, and in behalf of the Whipple 
 school received the portrait which Is 
 to occupy a commandine position therein. 
 His remarks were as follows : 
 
 Your Honor the Mayor, (Jentleraen of 
 the City Government, Children, Gentle- 
 men of Storer Post, Ladies and Gen- 
 tlemen : It is the very agreeable duty 
 placed upon me by the chairman and 
 members of the committee in charge, to 
 speak in behalf of the IJjard of Instruc- 
 tion and accept, in their name, for the 
 Whipple school, this splendid portrait of 
 the great and good man for whom the 
 school is named. 
 
 The hour is late and I have observed 
 that the "sandman" is beginning to 
 sprinkle a little of his sand in some of 
 these bright eyes here before me, and 
 moreover so much has been said and so 
 well said that I am sure it will 
 sulllce if I should simply add that these 
 children will not and cannot forget this 
 inspiring occasion, and that this portrait 
 hanging upon the walls of their school 
 will be, for generations to come, some- 
 thing to cheer them up to duty, to exhibit 
 
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 to them daily an illustrious example of 
 all that is good and noble, as we have 
 heard from the eloquent words of Pay- 
 master Foster, to quicken them in pa- 
 triotism, and to lire their hearts with 
 barning zeal and atlection for their dear 
 native land. God grant it so. Amen. 
 
 Then A. P. Wendell on receiving the 
 portrait for the Farragut school spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 Mayor Laskey : 
 
 Sir :— In receiving from you this valua- 
 ble portrait of the great hero Farragut 
 which has been presented to the city by 
 Storer Post, I feel a deep interest and 
 responsibility as representative of the 
 Board of Instruction and the district in 
 which this painting is to be located and 
 I promise that the same shall be carefully 
 placed upon the walls of our building 
 where it can be seen by the teacliers, 
 scholars and all who enter our scjiool, a 
 constant reminder of the noble patriot 
 
 whose life and work have been so faith- 
 ful y and ably treated by Pay Inspector 
 Smith this evening. On account of the 
 lateness of the hour allow me in a few 
 words to thank you very heartily for 
 this elegant gift, which yon have en- 
 entrusted to our keeping. 
 
 This closed the delightful exercises of 
 the evening. 
 
 Flaale. 
 
 All honor and glory to the pioneer Post, 
 G. A. R. , of New Hampshire for its noble 
 and successful efforts in securing for the 
 two new school houses these elegant 
 portraits. The old comrades have indeed 
 been blest with enduring tires of 
 patriotism. These latest efforts of their 
 zeal in a noble, because educating cause, 
 and finding happy consummation in last 
 night's double bestowal, is a triumph of 
 which they may well feel proud. 
 
 (Times, ''1 ami 23 November, 1891.) 
 
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 TlirllliDg Story ol the War of 
 the Rebellion, 
 
 How the Kearsarge Shipped tlie 
 Alabama. 
 
 A Gala Night for Storer Post, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 The stage at Music hall last evening 
 presented a picture of rare iiistorical 
 interest to one conversant with the 
 stirring events of the civil war of a 
 ((uarter century ago, and which would be 
 hard to duplicate. The large gathering in 
 the ball had assembled to enjoy the liberal 
 programme provided by Scorer Post, in 
 an entertainment whose proceeds are to 
 be applied to the purchase of portraits of 
 Admiral Farragut and Gen. William 
 Whipple for the schools bearing those 
 names. The object commended itself so 
 thoroughly to everybody that a represen- 
 tative Portsmouth audience nearly filled 
 the house, parqaette and gallery. 
 
 On the stage right, supported upon an 
 easel was the historic picture of Farragut 
 in the shrouds at Mobile bay, faulty in 
 one detail, the conventional naval frock 
 coat being displayed instead of the flannel 
 bkuse which he wore when Capt. Dray- 
 ton sent Watson up to pass a line around 
 the old hero as a safe guard. On ihe left 
 was shown an oil painting representing 
 the memorable action betw« en the Kear 
 sarge [built at the Portsmouth navy yard 
 in 18G1] and the Alabama ofl' CherTjourg 
 on that glorious Sunday morning [19 
 June, 1864] so many years ago. These 
 were accessories to the central picture yet 
 to come; but before which was given a 
 pleasant entertainment, prepared by th« 
 Past comntittee, as the skilled cuisinier 
 prefaces the greater work of his hands by 
 appetising approaches. 
 
 An overture, or rather a pot pourri of 
 Natiocal airs by LaBrie's orchestra gave 
 the keynote, followed by a four part spn^', 
 tftectively given by a chorus of lads and 
 lassits from the Whipple and Farragut 
 schoo's, directed by George D. Whittier, 
 their teacher. Miss Ethel Green gave a 
 spirited recitation, "Independence 
 Bell," with such etf- ct that a re- 
 call was insisted upon, to which she 
 responded with "Sheridan's Ride," earn- 
 ing another reward from the house. 
 
 The same happy fate awaited the \ 
 Mozart Club, which came back at the 
 persistent deonand of the audience, to 
 repeat the last verse of Hartel's song "I 
 think of Thee." Mr. George M. Ayers' 
 cornet solo, "Silver Stream Polka." found 
 ready appreciation, and he, too, was 
 forced to return, but only to give the 
 finale of the Polka in response. 
 
 The curtain rose upon the second and 
 pr'ncipal feature of the evening, as the 
 actors in the great war drama, about to be 
 depicted, filed in and took their seats. 
 Between Capt. and Commandant C. C. 
 Carpenter, U. S. N. , veteran of the great 
 rebellion, and Capt. Arthur R. Yates, U. 
 S. N., one of the heroes of Mobile Bay 
 with the imraorial Farragut, sat the lec- 
 turer. Pay Inspector Joseph A. Smith, U. 
 S N., Paymaster of the Kearsarge. Be- 
 hind and near these gentlemen sat the fol- 
 lowing named survivors of the great 
 naval battle, who draok-in their comrade's 
 words and lived over again that never-to- 
 be-forgotten dav ; Wiliam Y. Evans, Ly- 
 man H. Hartfo'rd, Martin Hoyt, True W. 
 Priest, Thomas Salmon, John W. Ynung 
 [all of Portsmouth, and] Lyman P. Spin- 
 ney [of Kittery]. 
 
 Capt. Carpenter in well chosen words 
 introduced his fellow officer, which 
 service Pay Inspector Smith repaid by a 
 preliminary statement that the com- 
 mandant had been acting as his under- 
 study with a view to lecturing in his, the 
 paymaster's default. 
 
 The lecturer read from his notes, which 
 he remarked, in explanation, had been 
 abbreviated somewhat from the original. 
 His matter was rich in phrase and expres- 
 sion, his delivery finished, graceful and 
 eloquent. 
 
 The writer failed to catch any mention 
 of Captain James S. Thornton's naujc 
 [who as Lieuten ant Commander was execu • 
 live officer of the Kearsarge at the time 
 of the fight. Captain John A Winslow. 
 being in command.] although a position 
 under the gallery may have been the 
 cause. Thornton was a household word 
 in Portsmouth, and his ratmoryhereis 
 ever green. An idea of the regard in 
 which he is held might have been 
 gathered from the storm of hands and 
 feet at the mention of the name of the 
 lamented and heroic Commodore Charles 
 W. Pickering [of Portsmouth, first captain 
 of the Fear sarge.] 
 
 The lecturer was frequently applauded 
 and he was accorded the most perfect at- 
 tention. The address fulfilled the highest 
 expectations of the audience and earned 
 for the speaker an added laurel well de- 
 served and freely bestowed. In closing 
 his allusion to a promioent figure Iq his 
 
AD DEN DA 
 
 RELATING To 
 
 The Whipple and Farragut Portraits, 
 
 GENERAL WHIPPLE'S ANCESTORS anl JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 
 
 William Whipplk, of Portsmoiiih, \. 11. 
 Signer of the Declaration of IndeiKMidonoo. 
 
 Born 17.!0 - Died ITS."). 
 Presented by .Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. U.— IPOl. 
 
 (Tablet.) 
 
 David Glasgow FARR.\GLr, 
 
 Admiral, U. S. Navj'. 
 
 Died at Portsmoutb, N. IT., Aug. 14, 187(i, .K fij). 
 
 Presented by Storer Post, No.l, G. A. R.— 1891. 
 
 (Tablet.) 
 
 STORER POST. 
 
 The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of 
 the City of Portsmouth, N. H., having 
 adopted in Seote-nber. 1890, the names of 
 General William "Whipple and Admiral 
 David Glasgow Farragut for the tvpo new 
 school houses, in compliance with the 
 suggestions of Storer r.)St, as fully relat- 
 ed In the Appendix to "The Presentation 
 of Flags to the Schools of P.m&niouth, N 
 H, October 9, 1890. by Storer Post," 
 Portsmouth, 1890; at a regular meeting 
 of the Post held October 15, 1890, it was 
 voted that in acknowledgment of this 
 courtesy the Post present oil portraits of 
 General Whipple and Admiral Farragut to 
 the City for the schools bearing their 
 names. 
 
 The Entertainment. 
 
 It was decided to give an entertainment 
 to defray the cost of the portrait", and 
 the matter was placed in the hands of a 
 c >mmittee, consisting of Thomas Kennedy, 
 chairman ; Joseph Foster, secretary ; Mar- 
 cus M Collis, treasurer; and Meshach H. 
 Bell. William Critchley, Joseph R Curtis. 
 Charles N. Osgood, Henry S Paul and 
 Jefferson C Tilton, members; who on the 
 evening of November 18, 1890. gave the 
 follow ing entertainment. 
 
 G. 1 1 
 
 — lOK THE— 
 
 Whipple and Farragut Scbools* 
 Portrait Fund, 
 
 .A^T 3VEXJSIC KC-A-Xilj, 
 
 TUESDAY, 18th NOVEMBER, 1890. 
 
 Part 1. 
 
 1. Overture, National Airs 
 
 LaBkie'.*; Full Orchestra. 
 
 2. Song, "Songs should Breathe" 
 
 Selected choir of twenty voices from the 
 .scholars of the AVhipple and Farragut 
 schools, under the direction of Professor 
 George D. Whittier. 
 
 .'i. Recitation, "Independence Bell" 
 
 Miss j:thel Greek. 
 4. Song, Selected 
 
 Mozart Glee Club. 
 .'). Cornet Solo, "Silver Stream Polka," 
 
 Rollinson 
 
 (iEORGE M. .\VERi«. 
 
 Part 2. 
 
 1. Introduction of the Lecturer, by Captain 
 
 Charles C. Carpenter, U. S. Navy, Presi- 
 d(-nt of the evening. 
 
 2. Lecture on the Cruise of the Kearsarge and 
 
 her Fight with the Alabama, by Pay In- 
 spector Joseph A. Smith, U. S. Xavy. 
 then paymaster of the Kearsarge. 
 
 Part 3. 
 
 1. 0\crture, "Light Cavalry," Suppc 
 
 LaBrie's Full Orchestra. 
 
 •2. Song, "Fneedom" 
 
 Scholars of WTiipple and Farragut Schools. 
 
 3. Recitation, "Ballad of Xew Orleans," 
 
 Boker 
 Miss Alice M. Sides. 
 
 4. Song, selected 
 
 Mozart Glee Club. 
 
 Tickets of admission, 2.5 cents. For Sale by 
 scholars of Whipple and Farragut schools, by 
 comrades of Storer Post, and at the stores of 
 Mercer Goodrich, M. M. Collis, and W. H. 
 Smith, on Market street, which by paying Ih 
 or 2.") cents additional, according to the loca 
 tion of seats, can be exchanged for reserved 
 seats on the morning of Friday, Xovember 
 )4th, from ^t to 12 o'clock, at the "box-oflice at 
 Music Hall, and afterwards at Goodrich's 
 Bookstore. 
 
 Doors open at 7,30 p.m. Kntertainnient to 
 commence at S p. m. sharp. 
 
 (Adveitjsement, Times, 11 Jsovember. 1890.) 
 
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 address was pointed and eflfective; it was 
 this: "Alabama" — Here we rest. 
 
 Of the concluding exercises space for- 
 bids mention, with the exception of the 
 "Ballad of New Orleans," a masterly 
 recitation by Miss Alice M. Sides, 
 daughter of Capt. John S. Sides of this 
 city, a widely known war veteran. 
 
 The fair speaker gave her subject full 
 justice and was made to endure the pen- 
 alty her talent; provoked ; but it hap- 
 pened, unfortunately, that she had looked 
 up only Sheridan's Ride, as being practi- 
 cal and appropriate, and, after bowing her 
 thanks to the resolute audience, retired to 
 consult with Miss Green upon the 
 misfortunes which attend public speakers. 
 
 The Post is to be co' gratulated upon 
 the pronounced success of the occasion, 
 the participants being entitled to the 
 highest consideration for valuable aid to 
 worthy cause. To them The Times begs 
 to express, in addition to the liberal com- 
 mendation of the great audience, its most 
 distinguished consideration. 
 
 {Times, 19 November, 1890.) 
 
 Resolutions. 
 
 At a meeting of Storer Post, No. 1, G. 
 A. R., on Wednesday evening, Nov. lOih, 
 1890, the following resolutions were unan- 
 imously adopted ; 
 
 TlEsoi.vED. Tfat tlielhanksof storer Post 
 No. 1, Dt'pariment of N«w Hampshire, Grand 
 Army ol the Republic be pre.-ented Comrade 
 Cbaries O. < arpen'er, Captwin, U- S. Navy, 
 presirient (f the evening; and to Conii-ade 
 Josi pii A. Smiih, I'ay Inspect'!-, U. S Navy, 
 oratoi- of the evening, for Ills elocxuent, vivid 
 and most interesting lecture on the cruise of 
 the Kearsarge and her fight with the 
 Alabama, at the entertainnnent given by the 
 Post at Music hall on the 18th of Noveiuber, 
 1890. for the Whipple ano Fai-raput schools' 
 portiait fudd; and to the seven veterans of 
 the Kearsarge, William Y. Evans, L5 man H. 
 Hartford, Martin Hoyt, True W. Prii-st, 
 Thomas Salmon, and John W. Young of Ports- 
 mouih, and Lyraan P. Spinnt-y of Kittery, 
 who honored the Post by accepting seats on 
 the platf>))m on this occasion ; to Miss Ethel 
 Green lor her fine rendering of "Independ- 
 ence Bell," in tribute to General Whipple; 
 and to Mr. George D Hbittier aiid the 
 scholars ol the Whipple and F«rragut schools, 
 who ciieerluliy g-ive their aid to make the eu- 
 teitainment a success. 
 
 The thanks and compliments of i'torer 
 Post are als'« presented to Miss Alice M 
 Sides, oaughter of a veteran, lor her b^au 
 li^ul flnd stirring recitati n of the "Pallad 
 of New Orlcms," in honor of Admiral 
 Farragut, which recalled that glorious vic- 
 torv to many of its survivors among the 
 audience, and deeplv touched thM hearts 
 ot all her heaiers as she impressively re- 
 lated the perils of the fight, and spoke the 
 names of nival herofs, whose forms an" 
 faces were once well known and are not 
 yet forgoiten In Poiti-mouth, where, in 
 gome cases, their relativeo and descendants 
 still reside. 
 
 The thanks of Storer Po't are also ten 
 dered to Mr. Pickering and Miss Pierce, 
 
 principals of the Whipple and Farragut 
 schools for their a'siatance; to Mr. LaBrie, 
 the orche-tra, and the Mozart Glee club, 
 for their zeal on this cccasion; and to all, 
 who, by their presence at the entertain- 
 mei't, aided the Post in its purpose ol pre 
 senting oil portraits of our Portsmouth 
 tiemer of i.be Declaration of Independence 
 an<i of America's great admiral to the 
 school^ beaiir g their iiamep, as daily teaclr- 
 ers of patriotism to coming generations of 
 our desc^ndaT>1g 
 
 Resolved. That a copy of the foregoing 
 resolution be furnished to the city press. 
 
 iPost, 20 November, 1S90 ) 
 
 At the same meeting of Storer Post, 
 November 19th, 1890, this resolution, 
 already given on page 20, was unanimoos- 
 ly adopted, viz : 
 
 Resolved. That the Committee on Enter- 
 taii ment be irs'ructed to arrange with the 
 celebrated portrait painter Mr U D. Tenney 
 of Concord, N. H , to paint suitable oil por- 
 traits ot Gen. WilliHm Whipple and Admiral 
 David G. Farragut for the Post, tohpve the 
 paintings properly framed and suitably 
 markc 1 with name and by whom presented, 
 and dale, on a separate tablet or otherwise; 
 and when they are completed to arrange lor 
 their public pi esentatii 11 by the Post, through 
 Its commander, to the City of Portsmouth ; to 
 be hung in the room occupied by the senior 
 class at the Whipple and Farragut schools 
 re.^pectively, as long as the school houses 
 shall fctand. 
 
 James Russell liOtvell's Gift. 
 
 The following letter was received from 
 James Russell Lowell, of Cambridge, 
 Mass., in reply to a letter from the Enter- 
 tainment Committee of Storer Post, re- 
 questing him to read before the Ports- 
 mouth public in aid of the portrait fund 
 for the Whipple and Farragut schools : 
 
 Elmwood, 
 Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 2, 1890. 
 Dear Sir : — The state of my health will 
 not permit me to give a reading in Ports- 
 mouth, as you rf quest. Had I been able 
 to do so. however, I beg to say that I 
 could not have accepted any remunera- 
 tion. 
 
 I enclose three checks, payable to your 
 order, of iwentv doUais each, in aid of 
 your undertaking One is from my sister, 
 Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam, ore from mv 
 niece. Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, and 
 the other from me. These I beg you to 
 accept in furtherance of your enterprise. 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 J. R. Lowell. 
 Joseph Foster, Esq. 
 
 At a meeting of Storer Post, held on 
 the evening of December 17, 1890, ihe 
 foregoii.g letter was read "and the noble 
 action of Mr. Lowell was received with 
 loud demonstrations of applause by the 
 comrades, and the following resolutions 
 were unanimously adopted :" 
 
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 Besolved. That the grateful acknowledg- 
 ments or Stor^r Post, No. ], Grand Army ot 
 the K« public, Department of New Hampshire, 
 be presented lo James Russtll Lowell ci Cam- 
 bridge, Masp., "who is fitly ranked todav as 
 the first citizen of our republic, because of 
 what he has done for the mind and soul of 
 America, and because of wiiat he is in linr- 
 sel', above all his works," to his sister, Mrs. 
 Mary Lowell Putnam, and to his niece, Miss 
 G oigina Lowell Putnam, both of Boston, for 
 their kind gifcs of twenty dollars each in aidof 
 our "^Miippie and Farr:igut schools porirait 
 tund,"and for their sympathy wiin the Post, 
 thereby shown, in its eftorts to cheris > the 
 historical memories of Portsmouth, and to 
 Inspire our chil' ren and children's children 
 with the love of home and country, by pre- 
 senting oil portraits of their near kiiisujan, 
 Gc' oral William Whipule ot Porti-mouih, 
 signer of the Declaiation of Indepenilence, 
 and of Admiral David G. Karragut, U S.N, 
 hero of New Orleans and Mobile bay, to tie 
 schools recently named in their honor at the 
 suggt-stion of liie Post. 
 
 Eesolved. That a copy ot these resolutions 
 be lorwari ed to Mr. Lowell, ana to the ladies; 
 and that a copy be farnishi-d to the press, as 
 an additional i^roof of our appreciation of 
 their kindness ami good will. 
 
 CPosi, IS December, 1S90.) 
 
 Other Contributions. 
 
 The total receipts at the Entertainment 
 held November 18th, 1890. were $278 50 
 (of which $60 was from tickets sold bv 
 scholars of the Whipple school, and $51.75 
 from tickets sold by scholars of the 
 Farragut school), and the expense.s were 
 $96.10, leaving the net receipts $182 40. 
 
 In addition to the .560 contributed by 
 Mr- Lowell, his sister, and niece, $20 
 was presented by a lady of Portsmouth 
 who desired to remain unknown, and $5 
 by Rev. E. M. O'Callaghan, in token of 
 their sympathy, and good wishes; and 
 these, with other contributions by mem 
 bers of the Post, and the profits of the 
 Entertainment of November 18th, 1890, 
 covered all expenses. 
 
 Admiral Farragnt's Portrait. 
 
 The following letters in relation to the 
 standard chosen for the portrait of Ad- 
 miral Farragut will be found of interest. 
 
 113 East 36th St., 
 New York, Nov. 28th, 1890. 
 Paymaster Joseph Foster, U. S. N., 
 
 My Dear Sir : — Appreciating the honor 
 which Sturer Post desires to confer on 
 my father by presenting his portrait to 
 the Farragut school at Portsmouth, I beg 
 to state that the two most satisfactory oil 
 paintings are to be seen at the Union 
 League Club and University Club of this 
 city The latter is probably the best. . . 
 
 If the artist ever comes to the city I 
 shall be very glad to show him the picture 
 in the University Club, of which I am a 
 member. 
 
 I received a pamphlet from some one 
 containing an account of the presentation 
 of tne Flags to th^sthools. It was quite 
 interesting aod I was glad to read the 
 handsome compliment piid to my father 
 by one c f his old officers. 
 
 Very truly yours. 
 
 LoYALL Farragut. 
 
 New York, Dec. 12th, 1890. 
 Paymaster Joseph Foster, U. S. N. 
 
 My Dear Sir : — I saw a new one hun- 
 dred dollar hill jesterday with the engrav- 
 ing of my father, and I think it ia quite 
 good. It seemed to me that it was an im- 
 provement on the naval pension checks 
 which make the Admiral verv sttrn 
 in appearance. I hardly think they are 
 from the same die. . . . 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 LoYALL Farragut. 
 
 Treasury Department, 
 Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 
 December 6, 1890. 
 Mr. Joseph Foster, 
 
 Care Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. R., 
 Portsmouth, N. H. 
 Sir: — In reply to the icquiry made in 
 your letter of the 29th of November, I 
 have tc say that the portrait of Admiral 
 Farragut in use by this Bureau was en- 
 graved from a photograph furnished by 
 Mrs. Farragut during the lifetime of the 
 Admiral. 
 
 Respectfully your?, 
 
 Wm. M. Meredith, 
 . Chief of Bureau. 
 
 Mnnicipal Affairs. 
 
 The board of Mayor and Aldermen 
 held its regular meeting last evening, 
 October 1st, 1891. . . . 
 
 The following communication was re- 
 ceived from Storer Post, G. A. R : 
 
 Headquarters 
 Storer Post, No. 1, G. A. R., 
 
 Department w New Hampshire, 
 Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 21, 1891. j 
 
 To the Honorable Board of Mayor and 
 Aldermen of the city of Portsmouth, N. 
 H. : 
 
 GE^TLEMEN — lo acknowledgment of the 
 courtesy of the city government of Ports- 
 mouth in adopting the names for the 
 Whipple and Farragut schools suggested 
 by Storer Post, the Post has had oil por- 
 traits of General Whipple and Admiral 
 Farrasrut painted for presentation to the 
 city to be hung in the rooms occupied by 
 the senior classes at these schools, and 
 respectfully asks in what m^njjer it will be 
 
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 most agreeable to your honorable body to 
 have the pictures presented. 
 EespectfuUy, 
 
 Joseph R. Curtis, 
 Meshach H. Bell, 
 "William Critchley, 
 Joseph Foster, 
 Charles N. Osgood, 
 Henry S. Paul, 
 Jefferson C Tilton, 
 
 Comnaittee. 
 
 The above was referred to committee 
 on school houses. 
 
 (.Times, 2 October, 1891.) 
 
 Two members, Marcus M. Collis and 
 Thomas Kennedy, were absent from the 
 meeting of the Storer Post Committee 
 when the foregoing letter was prepared 
 and signed. 
 
 General Committee. 
 
 The committee on school houses of the 
 City Councils, consisting of Aldermen 
 Charles x'. Berry, W. A A. Cullen and 
 Ira C. Seymour and Councilmen Robert 
 W. Phiuney, John Frizzell and Samuel 
 Maddock, duly authorized for the pur- 
 pose, formed with the committee of 
 Scorer Post a joint committee; to which 
 a committee of five members of the Board 
 of Instruction, Rev. Alfred Gooding, Rev. 
 Henry E. Hovey, Major David Urch, and 
 Messrs. Andrew P. Wendell and William 
 H. Moore, and Superintendent of Schools 
 Charles H. Morss, were added. 
 
 This General Committee, of which Al 
 derman Charles P. Berry was chairman, 
 made all arrangements in relation to the 
 presentation ot the Portraits of General 
 Whipple and Admiral Farragut to the 
 city. Invitations to the City Govern- 
 ment, Board of Instruction, Ex-Mayors 
 of Portsmouth, and other special guests, 
 to participate in the presentation at Music 
 Hall, were sent in the following form. 
 The general admission to the Hall was 
 free. Full details of the ceremonies have 
 already been given. 
 
 City Rooms, Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 November, 16, 1891. 
 Dear Sir :— The General Committee of 
 the City Government, Board of Instruc- 
 
 tion and Storer Post, G. A. R., appointed 
 for that purpose, cordially invite you to 
 be present at Music Hall, and take a seat 
 on the stagp, on Friday Evening, Novem- 
 ber 20th, r891, at 7 45 o'clock, to partic- 
 ipate in the presentation of the Oil Por- 
 traits of General Whipple and Admiral 
 Farragun by Storer Post to the City of 
 Portsmouth, for the schools bearing these 
 names. Respectfully, 
 
 Charles P. Berry, Chairman. 
 William H. Moore, Secretary. 
 
 The following notification was sent to 
 the members of S:orer Post : 
 
 Headquarters "] 
 
 Storer Post. No 1, G. A. R., I 
 Department of Nwyy Hampshire, j 
 Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 18, 1891. J 
 Comrade : — You are requested to be 
 present in full uniform at G. A. R Hall on 
 Friday evening, November 20th, inst. , at 
 7 o'clock, for the purp">se of presenting 
 the Oil Portraits of Gen. Whipple and 
 Admiral Farragut to the Schools bearing 
 their names ; presentation to take place in 
 Music Hall. 
 
 Per Order, 
 Jos. R Curtis, Commander. 
 C. H. Besselievre, Adjutant. 
 
 The Whipple Family. 
 
 General William Whipple, of Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence, was born January 14th, 
 1730, in Kittery, Me. He was the son of 
 i;aptain William Whipple, senior, of 
 Kittery^ grandson of Major Matthew 
 Whipple* of Ipswich, Mass.. great grand- 
 son of Captain John Whipple, and great- 
 great grandson of Elder John Whipple, 
 both also of Ipswich, 
 
 * Major Matthew Whipple, of Ipswicli, Mass., grandfather of General William Whipple, 
 Is stated in the Appendix to "The Presentation of Flags to the Schools of Portsmouth, 
 N. H.," Portsipouth, 1890, page '20, to have been a grandson of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich 
 (brother of Elder John Whipple), through his soii John. As both brothers, Matthew and 
 .John, had sons John, "these three Johns are grievously confoumded by most writers who 
 have noticed them," and following the authority there quoted the mistake occurred. It is 
 now corrected on the authority of a scarce pamphlet, entitled " A brief Genealogy of the 
 Whipple Family,' compiled by John H. Boutelle of Woburn, for Oliver M. Whipple, Esq., of 
 Lowell, Mass., Lowell, 1857, where "the earlier generations especially have been traced 
 through, and several important points, hitherto wrongly printed, are now satisfactorily in- 
 vestigated," as stated in the " N. E. H.G. Kegister," vol. XI, page 360. 
 
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 In England. 
 
 "The Whipple family in this country 
 undoubtedly descended from Matthew 
 Whipple of Bocliinff, county Essex, Eng- 
 land, a clothier. Will of December 19th, 
 1616, probated January 28th, 1618, men- 
 tions son Matthew, son John, daughters 
 Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Anne [Amce?], 
 Johane, Amye ; 'my sister, wife of Richard 
 Rathbone; Hercules Stephens, grandchil- 
 dren Hercules and Margaret Arthur, and 
 Henry and Anne Coldham [CaldhamJ'. 
 
 The two brothers, Matthew and John, 
 who were settled at Ipswich some time 
 before 1638, were probably the sons men- 
 tione'i above. They settled at the 'Ham- 
 let,' uow the town of Hamilton. John 
 was a deacon or ruling elder of the First 
 Church. He was freeman 1640, and rep- 
 resentative for eight years between that 
 and 1653. By first wife he had children- 
 Mary, John, Susanna, Sarah, and prob- 
 ably others." 
 
 ("N. E. fl. G. Register," Vol. XLII, pp. 99-100.) 
 
 la this connection it is worthy of note 
 that Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, minister at 
 Ipswich from 1638 to 1655, was curate at 
 Bocking from about 1626 to 1631. 
 
 Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, born at Haver- 
 hill, England, in 1598, "became curate to 
 Dr. Barkham, at Backing, in Essex," 
 about 1626. "Having served at Booking 
 four or five years, he was called to 
 Assington, in Suffolk, where he preached 
 five years more." Here his labors were 
 abundantly successful. But teeing that 
 he could not dutifully subscribe 'the 
 Articles of Visitation,' aod that a storm 
 of persecution was about to overtake him, 
 he concluded to flee to New England . . . 
 After a long passage he arrived at Boston, 
 in November, 1636, .... He was invit- 
 ed to settle at Dorchester; but as those 
 who c&me wi^h him could not be accom- 
 modated there, he chose to come with 
 them to Ipswich. Here he was ordained 
 pastor, February 20, 1638." He died 
 "July 3, 1655, ased 57." 
 
 ("Felt's Ipswich," Cambridge, 
 1834, pp. 219-221.) 
 
 The foUowiis full abstract of the will 
 of "Mathewe Whipple the elder of Bock- 
 ing, Essex", (which is two miles north of 
 Braintree, in the same county), is taken 
 from the "Genealogical Gleanings in 
 England", by Henry F. Waters, in the 
 "N. E. H. G. Register," Vol. XLlV, page 
 389. Mr. Waters says that this will and 
 the will of "John Amies of Bockin, 7 
 April, 1647, proved 16 April, 1647,"' giving 
 "the piece of cloth at home unto Mr. 
 Rogers, John Whiple and a jerkin cloth 
 of it 10 Mr. Norton of Ipswich, N. E." 
 
 (who were then "Pastor," "Ruling Elder" 
 and "Teacher" of the First Church at 
 Ipswich — "Felt's Ipswich," pages 159, 
 220. 222) ; and that of "John Hawkings 
 of Brayntree, Essex. Gent., 3 September, 
 1633, proved 18 October, 1633," devising 
 "to my brother Francis Hawkins, my sis- 
 ter Archer and my sister Whipple forty 
 shillings apiece as remembrances of me;" 
 of which abstracts are also there given, 
 "relate undoubtedly to the family of 
 Whipple in Ipswich, Massachusetts, de- 
 scended from two brothers Matthew and 
 John." 
 
 "Mathewe Whipple the elder of Bock- 
 ing, Ess'-x, clothier, 19 December 1616, 
 proved 28 January 1618. 
 
 My capital messuage or tenement, with 
 the yards, gardens, orchards, members 
 and appurtenances, situate in Bradford 
 Street in Bocking, now in the occupation 
 of me the said Mathewe, from and after 
 my decease shall remain to Mathewe 
 Whippell, mine eldest son, upon condition 
 that he shall pay or cause to be paid to 
 my son John Whippell four-'core pounds 
 within three months next after my decease, 
 and to my daughter Jane thirty pounds 
 w'thin six months, and to my daughter 
 Elizabeth thir y pounds within twelve 
 months, and to my daughter Mary thirty 
 pounds at one and twenty or day of her 
 marriage, and to my daught.-r Ami-; thirty 
 pounds at one and twenty or day of mar- 
 riage, upon reasonable demand made by 
 the said Jane, Eizabeth, Marv, and Amye. 
 
 To my daughter Amce (?) six silver 
 spoons of the better sort, two high latten 
 candlesticks, my biggest brass pot and 
 three pounds six shillings and eight 
 pence. 
 
 To my daughter Johane forty shillings. 
 
 To my daughter Jane two silver spoons, 
 two pewter platters of the greater sort, 
 one pewter candlestick, one half headed 
 bedstedle, my best flock bed, a flock 
 bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets. 
 
 To my daughter Elizabeth two silver 
 spoons, one pewter candlestick, two 
 j)ewter platters of the greater sort, a half- 
 headed bedstedle, next the best, a flock 
 bed, a flock bolster, a coverlet, a pair of 
 blankets and the little chest which was 
 her mother's. 
 
 To my daughter Mary two silver 
 spoons, two pewter platters and a pewter 
 salt, a trundle bedsteadle, a flock bed, a 
 flock bolster, a coverlet, a pair of blank- 
 ets. 
 
 To my daughter Amye two silver 
 spoons, two pewter platters, a pewter 
 salt, a trundle bedsteadle, a flock bed, a 
 flock bolster and a pair of blankets. 
 
 To my son John a joyned table and 
 
2§ 
 
 frame staudins: in my old parlor (and 
 other movables ) 
 
 To my sister, wife of Eichard Rath- 
 bone twenty shillings. To Hercules 
 Stephens ten sbillinss To mv grand- 
 children Hercules "Arthur, Margaret 
 Arthur, Henry Caldham and Annie Cald- 
 ham six shillings eight pence apiece. To 
 the poor of Bocking twenty shillings. 
 
 All the rest to my son Matthew, sole 
 executor. ' Parker, 2." 
 
 ("X. E. H. G. Register," Vol. XLIV, p. 389.) 
 
 It is said in the Virginia branch of the 
 "Whipple family, that a history of the 
 family from the time of William the Con- 
 queror down to the time of Col. John 
 "Wbipple of Prince Rupert's division of 
 the Cavaliers, who emigrated to Virginia 
 in 1662, can be found in the ancient 
 Library at Birmingham, Enaland, where 
 the Duadale and Thorpe MSS. are depos- 
 ited, which manuscripts give a full ac- 
 count of the aristocratic Colonial families, 
 and were collected by G. P. R. James 
 while Briti>h consul at Norfolk, Virginia. 
 
 This history relates, it is further said, 
 that the Whipple family originated with 
 Henri De V : Hippie, a gentleman of Nor- 
 mandy of the Vale de Suere (or Vale de 
 SuedeJ. For his gallantry he was grant- 
 ed the manorial estates of Wraxall — tak- 
 ing the name of Wraxall. Richard Wrax- 
 all— that is, Richard de V: Hippie — was 
 knighted on the battlefield of Agincourt, 
 and given the motto : "Fidele et Brave." 
 Leaving Wraxall on account, of persecu- 
 tion, the name of De V: Hippie was re 
 sumed. which in the lime of Henry VII. 
 (1485-1509), was anglicized into Whipple. 
 
 In Azaerioa. 
 
 *'We learn that there were three of the 
 name of Whipple who settled early in 
 New Eneland : Matthew and John (born 
 about 1605), brothers, settled in Ipswich, 
 in that part called the Hamlet, since 
 Hamilton [If these two brothers are 
 identical with Matthew and John Whipple, 
 sons of Matthew Whipple of Bocking, 
 England, good reasons for believing 
 which nave been given, both were doubt- 
 less born earlier than 1605 ; Matthew must 
 have been of age in 1616, when appointed 
 executor of his father's will, and was there- 
 fore probably born several years before 
 1595. Matthew died September 8, 1647, 
 and John died June 30, 1669. ages not 
 known.] The other, named David, 
 settled In Rhode Island on a hill called 
 Study Hill [Vo connection between him 
 and the Ipswich family has been traced] " 
 
 "Maithew Whipple settled early in 
 Ipswich Hamlet: (Land was granted to 
 him in 1638. His house was sold July 10, 
 
 1647, to John Annable, tailor.— J. B. 
 Felt.) His will, dated 3m. 7d., 1645 [ of 
 which an abstract is printed in the 
 "Antiquarian Papers," Ipswich, Mas? , 
 April 1884], is on record at the Register 
 of Deeds for the county of Eisex, la 
 which he mentions his eldest son, John, 
 sons Matthew and Joseph, and daughters 
 [Mary — see abstract] Anna and 
 Elizabeth. He leaves to bis eldest, John, 
 one half of his estate; the other half to 
 his two youngest sons Matthew and 
 Joseph. He left wife Rise (Chute?), 
 whom he married (Nov. 13. 1646 ?). His 
 children were bv a former wife. He died 
 September 8, 1647." 
 
 ("A brief Genealogy of the Whipple 
 family," Liovvell, mas3 , 1857, page 3.) 
 
 Elder John Whipple. 
 
 Elder John Whipple, great great grand- 
 father of General William Whipple, "re- 
 sided at the Hamlet [part of Ipswich, 
 now Hamilton, Mass.], and was Deacon 
 and Ruling Eider of the First Church. 
 [Edward Johnson (in his" Wonder- Work- 
 ing Providence", London, 1654, reprinted 
 in •' Massachusetts Historical Collec- 
 tions", 2d series') "mentions Mr. Whipple" 
 (Vol. IV. , page 25), "as 'one, whose gddly 
 sincerity is much approvei.' " — "Felt's Ips- 
 wich," page 159.] He and his brotber Mat- 
 thew sustained various offices of trust. 
 He was born about 1605 [or earlier — see 
 above] " 
 
 He "had a large grant of land in 1639, 
 frerman in 1640 " [He "*vas Deputy 
 to the General Court 1640—1642, 1646 
 1650—16.53," "Felts Ipswich," page 159 ] 
 
 "He had two wives, [Sarah (wife of 
 John Whipple) who died June 14, 1658, 
 stated in "Felts Ipswich" page 159, to 
 have been the wife of Elder John Whip- 
 ple, was probably the wife of his nephew 
 John, — "Whipple Genealogy", pp. 4, 18] 
 his children were by his first wif6. His 
 will is dated May 10, 1669 ; his son Cornet 
 John, Executor." 
 
 "He left a widow Jennett (first hus- 
 band Thomas Dickinson) whose will is 
 on record at the Probate Office, Sufi"olk, 
 Vol. 11, page 85, and children John, 
 Susannah, reiict of Lionel Worth, Mary 
 Stone, Sarah Goodhue, and Anthonv Pot- 
 ter, son-in-law." ["Savage" adds a 
 daughter "Elizabeth", who, he says 
 "married perhaps Anthony Potter."] 
 
 Sarah, just mentioned, "married Jo- 
 seph Goodhue [of Ipswich], July, 1661, 
 died July 23, 168 1". [She was born in 1641 , 
 the youngest daugnter of Elder John 
 Whipple, and her well known pious 
 valedictory to her husband and children, 
 first printed at Cambridge, New England, 
 in 1681, was reprinted at Salem, Mass., 
 
§6 
 
 in 1770, and again in the "Antiquarian 
 Papers," Ipswirh. Mass., Decembtr, 1880, 
 and January, 18S1 ] 
 
 Elder John Whipple "died June 30 
 1669, and his Inventory is on file at the 
 Prooate office, Essex, presented by his 
 son Cornet John Whipple (afterwards 
 Capt. John Whipple) September 28, 
 1669". 
 
 ("Whipple Genealogy," pp 3-4, -29-30.) 
 
 Captain John Whipple. 
 
 "John Whipple (Captain), [John] born 
 about 1626; died August 10, 1683; aon of 
 Elder Jnhn Whipple. He was sometimes 
 called Junior, Cornet, and Captain." 
 [He was freeman I6f)8, and "Representa- 
 tive 1674,1679-1683". - "Savage."] "He 
 was appointed a Captain of a troop to 
 march for Marlborough against the ene- 
 my, &c. His prospects for honor and 
 usefulness were promising at the time of 
 his death " "His estate was valued at 
 £3000." He married first Martha Re>ner 
 (a daughter of Humplirey Rnyner) born 
 
 , died February 24, 1679; second, 
 
 Elizabeth Faioe, June 28, 1680." 
 
 Children [all by flist wife]. John 
 (Major) born July 15, 1657, married June 
 26, 1681, Catharine Layton, who died 
 August IG, 1702, aged 62, he died June 12, 
 1722 Matthew, born 1658. Joseph, born 
 March 6, 1664, died in infancy August 1665 
 Joseph (2a) born June 8, 1666. Susan, 
 
 married Lane [Susanna, married 
 
 John Lane, March 20, 1680,— "Savage"]. 
 Sarah, born September 2, 1671, married 
 Francis Wainwright March 12, 1686, died 
 March 16, 1709, aged 38. Anna, boru Oc- 
 tober 29, 1675 (?) 
 
 ("Whipple Genealogy," p. 30.) 
 
 "Captain John Whipple, son of 'Elder' 
 John, born in Essex, England, about 162G, 
 . . . was appointed C'^rnet of the Ipswich 
 Troop before 1675 [1663— "N. E H. G. 
 Register," Vol. XXXVII, page 285] and 
 Captain in 1G83 in place of Capt. "John 
 Appieton. He was Lieutenant in Capt. 
 Paige's Troop at Mount Hope, June, 1675 
 [King Philip's War], and was appointed 
 Captain of a troop raised for service un- 
 der Major Savage in March, 1676 [in the 
 same wa] ; wa^ with the army in ihe un- 
 successful maneuvering of that cam- 
 paign." 
 
 ("N. E. H. G. Register," Vol. XLII, p. 1( 0.) 
 
 Major Matthfcw^ 'Whipple- 
 
 "Matthew Whipple, [John, John — see 
 page 27] of the Hamlet, died January 
 28, 1739, in his eightieth year. He 
 married [second — see below] Martha, 
 daughter^f John, and grand daughter of 
 
 General Denison. [ Major General Dan- 
 iel Denison of Ipswich, born in England 
 in 1612. who died Sept. 20, 1682, in Ips- 
 wich, was for eleven years Major Gener- 
 al of the colonv, and very prominent in 
 colonial attair-". — See "Denison Memorial," 
 Ipswich, Mass , 1882.] She died Sept. 12, 
 1728, in her sixtieth year. Mr. Whipple 
 left children. Matthew, John, William, 
 who was of Kittery in 1730, where his 
 son William was born, who was a signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence and 
 Brigadier General at the capture of Bur- 
 goyne; — Jot^euh, settled in the ministry at 
 Hampton Fails, and Martha Hartshorne. 
 He had a malt-house and oat-mill, in 
 which he carried on much business. To 
 his mulatto servant he gave freedom. He 
 bequeathed his house and lands to 
 Matthew and John. Estate £3500. He 
 held several offices in the town, was 
 Justice of the Sessions Court, Repre- 
 sentative in 1718, 1719, 1729. He was an 
 energetic, useful and respected towns- 
 man."— "Felt's Ipswich," Cambridge, 1834, 
 pp. 176-177.) 
 
 ("Presentation of Flags," p. 20.) 
 
 "Matthew Whipple (Major) born 1658, 
 died, aged 80, January 28, 1738-9 [above 
 mentioned], son of Captain John, and 
 grandson of Elder J^hs, . . . married, 
 first, Joanna Appieton, by whom he had 
 children, Matthew, John, Joanna, Apple- 
 ton and William. He afterwards married, 
 June 10, 1697. Martha Rioge (or Rinige?) 
 
 [Martha (Denison) Thing] born^ ,died, 
 
 aged 60. Sept. 12, 1728, . . . [and had 
 children] Joseph, Martha and Nathaniel." 
 
 "His will is at the Probate Office, Essex 
 County, in which he mentions sons, Mat- 
 thew, Appieton, John, Joseph, William, 
 and his dwelling house [and] malt house. 
 Item. Mary Bradley, house keeper. Item. 
 Mulatto servant, Nicholas Freeman, &c., 
 Dec. 2, 1738." 
 
 Children. — Matthew. John, born July 
 
 22, 1689, married Hannah , died, aged 
 
 92, February 9, 1781. Joane?, born July 
 22, 1692. Appieton, born October 19, 
 1693. William, born February 28, 1695-6. 
 . . . Joseph (Rev), born July 31, 1701, 
 and settled at Hampton Falls (graduated 
 at Harvard University). [He was "or- 
 dained at Hampton Falls, N. H., January 
 15, 1727," and 'died February, 17, 1757." 
 
 'N E. H. G. Regi5.ter," Vol. XIII, 
 
 page 305] Martha, born January 7, 1704, 
 died In infancy January 30, 1704. Na- 
 thaniel, born Sept. 2, 1711." 
 
 ("Whipple Genealogy," pp. 31.32.) 
 
 Joanna (Appieton) Whipple, grand- 
 mother of General William Whipple, was 
 the daughter of Samuel Appieton, (2d), 
 
31 
 
 son of Samuel Appleton, (1st), both of 
 Ipswich. 
 
 Samuel Appleton (1st) was the son of 
 Tbomas Appleton, of Little Waldicgfield, 
 county Suffolk, England. ("Savage.") 
 
 "Samuel Appleton, [1st] died June, 
 1G70. He was born at Little Walding- 
 fiokl, England, 1586; came to Ipswich 
 1635, was admitted freeman 1636, and 
 was Deputy to the General Court 1637. 
 He left children, John, [a prominent 
 citizen of Ipswich, born 1622, died 1700, 
 (or 4 November, 1699, according to "Sav- 
 age"), Representative to General Court for 
 sixteen years between 1656 and 1678, 
 whose opposition to the illegal taxation 
 of Governor Andros in 1687, for which 
 "he wag imprisoned fined and dis- 
 franchised," is well known — see "Felt," 
 page 171], Samuel, Sarah, wife of the Rev. 
 Samuel Philips of Rowley, Judith, wife 
 of Samuel, son of the Rev. Nathaniel 
 Rogers, and Martha, wife of Richard 
 Jacobs." 
 
 "Samuel Appleton [2ud], sonof Samuel 
 Appleton [Ist], died Auau.-t IG, 1692. He 
 was born at Waldingfleld in 1625, and 
 probably came to Ipswich when his father 
 did. He married Hannah, daughter of 
 William Paine, and for his second wife, 
 Mary, daughter of John Oliver of 
 Newbury, December, 2, 1656, she being 
 born June 7, 1640, and died June 9, 1712. 
 [He was born in 1624, married, second, 8 
 December, 1656, Mary Oliver, the mother 
 of Joanna (Appleton) Whipple, and 
 died 15 May, 1696.— "Savage."] 
 He left children, Samuel, John, Juditb 
 Wolcott, Joanna Whipple, and Oliver. He 
 had lost a daughter Downs, whose only 
 child was Isaac. He held several offices 
 in the town, was Represevitative to the 
 Gfneral Court in 1669, 1671, 1673 1675- 
 1677, 1679. 1680. He was of the Govern- 
 or's Council In 1681-1686 1689-1692; Jus- 
 tice of the Quartf-rly and GcLeral Sessions 
 Courts, and of the Court of Oyer and 
 Terminer, April 11, 1692, for the trial of 
 persons charged with witchcraft. ["Res- 
 olute in support of the liberty of the peo- 
 ple against the unlawful taxation io 1687, 
 he was imprisoned by Andros, and hardly 
 released. See 'Hutchinson', I, 365." — 
 "Savage."] He was covcerned in 
 the iron-works at Lynn in 1645, 
 though Ipswich became his permanent 
 residence. — 1675, Oct. 23. The Assistants 
 write him to keep five hundred men for 
 the defence of the frontier towns at the 
 west against the Indians. In thi> quarter 
 he was several times successful in repel- 
 ing the enemy and preventing several 
 places from beiug consumed. When 
 Hatfield was attacked, October 19, a bul- 
 let passed through his hair, ao^ a Serjeant 
 
 was mortally wounded by his side. De- 
 cember 9. He served as Major in an 
 expedition against the Narragansetls, and 
 had the command of five hundred men in 
 the great batrle. His skill and bravery 
 and exertions did much towards securing 
 victory. While in this campaign, he had 
 his tent burnt, and his men lost their 
 clothes and arms — His diversified and 
 complicated duties, as a warrior, legisla- 
 tor, and judge, he ably and faithfully dis- 
 charged." 
 
 ("Felt's History of Ipswich," Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., 1834, pp. 1.59-160 and 
 169.) 
 
 "The first husband of Martha Denison 
 [above mentioned] was Thomas Wiggin 
 [son of Andrew and Anne (Bradstreet) 
 Wiggin], who was born 5 March, 1662. 
 He was a grandson of Gov. Thomas Wig- 
 gin, also of Gov. Simon Bradstreet. Mr. 
 Wiggin dieo in early manhood, leaving 
 but one child, Hannah. 
 
 Widow Martha (Denison) Wiggin then 
 became the second wife of Capt. Jonathan 
 Thing, of Exei-er [N. H.]. They were 
 married July, 1693, and had but one child, 
 Daniel Thing, born 12 Mny, 1694 Capt. 
 Jonathan Thing died 30 [or 31] October, 
 1694; his first wife was Mary, daughter 
 of Counsellor John Oilman, son of Edward 
 Oilman, sen'r. He had two other sons, 
 Edward and Mosps. 
 
 Her third husband was Matthew Whip- 
 ple, of Ipswich." 
 
 l"Antiquarian Papers," Ipswich, 
 Mass , .June, 1?S3. - ee also "l»eni- 
 
 son Mt-mnrial," Ipswich, I8S2, nsa, e 
 47, and "Bells His'ory of Exeter," 
 
 Exeter. N. H., 1888, Genealogy, p 46.) 
 
 Captain William Whipple, Senior. 
 
 William Whipple, senior (Matthew, 
 John, John), born 23 February, 1695-6, 
 the fatntr of General William Whipple, 
 "was a native of Ipswich, in Massachu- 
 setts, and was bred a maltster. Having 
 removed to Kittery in Maine, he followed 
 the sea, durins: several \ears. He married 
 [14 May, 1722— "N. E. H. G. Register," 
 Vol. X, paae 48] Marv [born 26 De- 
 cember, 1698 — "Presentation of Flags," 
 page 21] the eldest daughter of Robert 
 Cutt [2d] 
 
 Her grandfather, Robert Cutt [1st] was 
 a brother of John Cutt, the President of 
 New Hampshire, and emigrated from 
 England to the West Indies, where he 
 married a wealthy widow, who ditd soon 
 after. He then married Mary Hoet 
 [Mary Hoel — "Presentation of Flags," 
 page 20], an English lady, who had 
 removed to the West Indies. Soon after 
 their marriage they came to Portsmouth, 
 New Hampshire, and subsequently re- 
 
82 
 
 moved to Kittery, where Mr. Cutt estab- 
 lished a ship-yard, aad carried on the 
 busicess of ship-building very extensive- 
 ly. They had two sons, Richard and 
 Robert, and four daaghcers. [The 
 daughters were Mary, Biidget, Sarah and 
 Elizabeth. Richard was probably the son 
 of Robert Cact (1st), by his tirst wife. 
 Sometime subsequent to 1675, the widow 
 of Robert Cuit (2d), married Capt. 
 Francis Champernowne, "the loving 
 nephew" of Sir Fernando Gorges the 
 founder of Maine, and she and her 
 children by Mr. Cutt received by gift or 
 demise the principal part of Capt. 
 Champernowne's estate. — See "Presenta- 
 tion of Flags," pages 20-21 and note 
 page 33», '-Historical Papers," C. W. 
 Tuttle, Boston, 1889. 
 
 Ic is related, in a not wholly reliable 
 traditionary account (see page M) found 
 among the papers of Col. Joseoh vvhipule, 
 brother of General William Whip )le, and 
 printed in the "N. E. H. G. Register." 
 Vol. V. page 246, that Robert Cute (1st) 
 was a native of Ba h, England, and r,hat 
 his father was, the year he died, a 
 member of Parliament. Richard Cutt 
 was returned from Essex, for Cromwell's 
 second parliament, in 1654, but not for 
 that of 1656 ] 
 
 Robert [Robert Cutt (2d)] married 
 [18 April, 1698, — "Presentation of 
 Flags," page 2i] Dorcas Hammond, the 
 daughter of Mijor Joseph Hammond, 
 whose father, having been an adherent 
 of Oliver Cromwell, left England 
 on the death of the Protector 
 [who died 3 September, 1658], came 
 to this country and settled la Kictery 
 [See page 34]. They had four daughters ; 
 Mary, the wife of William Whipple 
 [senior] ; Catharine, who married John 
 Moflfat, a merchant, who then 
 resided at Kittery, but afterwards 
 removed to Portsmouth; Mehitable, 
 who married J ich^m Oliorne, mer- 
 chant of Portsmouth; and Elizabeth, 
 who married the R^v. Jos^^ph Whipple, 
 the brother of William Whipple [senior], 
 and who settled in the ministry ac Hamp 
 ton Falls. 
 
 Mr. Cutt possessed a large estate, and 
 his daughter, Mrs. [William] Whipple 
 [senior], inherited trom him a very 
 valuable farm in Kittery, situated on the 
 eastern branch of the Piscataqua river, 
 opposite to the island where the Navy 
 Yard is now established, and within view 
 of the town of Portsmouth. Mr. Wnip- 
 pie now abandoned his nautical pursuits. 
 and resided on this estate, which he held 
 in right of his wife, where he employed 
 himself as a farmer and maltster. Mrs. 
 Whipple was a lady of excellent sense, 
 
 agreeable manners, and many pleasing 
 [accomplishments. [He died 7 August, 
 i 1751, aged 56 years. She died 24 Febru- 
 ary, 1783, aged 84 years. — "Presentation 
 of Flags", page 22 ] They had Ave chil- 
 dren ; William. Robert, Joseph. Mary, 
 and Hannah [Majy, William, Hannah, 
 Robert Cutt, and Joseph]. 
 
 [1 ] Mary Whipple, tne eldest daugh- 
 ter, married Robert Trait [Traill], Es- 
 quire, comptroller of the port of Ports- 
 mouth previous to the Revolution. They 
 had three children, Robert, William and 
 Mary : Robert and William went to 
 Europe, where they settled; and Mary 
 married Kieth Spencer [Keith S pence], 
 E -quire, a merchant from Scotland who 
 settled in Portsmouth. Captain Robert 
 T. Spehce, their son, holfis [1824] a dis- 
 tinguished rank in the Navy of the United 
 States. 
 
 [Mary, "born 13 Januarv, 1728" [or 
 perhaps later] married Robert Trail 
 [Traill] of Boston, 1 Sepfemher. 1748.— 
 '•N E. H. G. Register," Vol X, page 48. 
 She survived her husband and "died 3 Oc- 
 tober, 1791, aged 61" [as stated on her 
 gravestone] — "Presentation of Flags," 
 page 21 ] 
 
 [2] [William Whipple, born 14 Jan- 
 uary, 1730 —"Register," X, 48— died 28 
 Njvember, 1785; ihe Signer of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence.] 
 
 [3 ] Hannah Whipple, the youngest 
 daughter, married the Hon. Joshua Brack- 
 ett, an eminen- physician in Portsmouth, 
 who, during the Revolution, was judge 
 of the maritime court of New Hampshire. 
 Her mother, Mary Whipple [Mary (Cu't) 
 Whipple], resided with her after the death 
 of her Husband, and died 1783, at the 
 advanced age of eighty- five years [See 
 above]. 
 
 [Hannah, b >rn 15 February, 1734-5; 
 married Dr. Joshua Brackett, of Ports- 
 mouth. 14 April 1760. He was born la 
 Greenland, N H, May, 1733 and died in 
 PortsmMith 17 July, 1801 [1802].— "Reg- 
 ister," X, 48 They had no children. 
 She died 24 April, 1805, aged 71.— "Presen- 
 tation of Flags," nage 21 ] 
 
 [4 ] Robert [Robert Cutt Whipple] 
 died when he was about nineteen [twenty- 
 five] years of age. 
 
 [Rooert Cutt, born 6 April, 1736; died 4 
 May, 1761, aged 25 -"Register" X, 48.] 
 
 [5.]— Joseph [Whipple] was educated in 
 the counting mom of Nathaniel Carter, 
 a merchant of Newburyport, and establish- 
 ed himself in business in Porisraouth, in 
 company with his brother : they continued 
 their mercantile connection until a short 
 time previous to the commencement of 
 the revolutionary war. He was after- 
 wards appointed collector of the port of 
 
33 
 
 Portsmouth, tlrst by tr e state of New 
 Hampshire, and after the adopt'on of the 
 federal consti'Ution, by th« PresideDt of 
 the United States : he held this office, 
 with a short intermiswion, until a few 
 months before his dea'h. He died with- 
 out issue, on the twenty sixh of 
 February, 1816, in the seventy-eighth 
 jewr of his age. 
 
 [Jiiseph, born 14 February, 1737 8; 
 married Hannah Billings of Bo-ton, 9 
 Odober, 1762. He was collector of the 
 customs in Fortsmomh — ' Rtgiater," X, 
 48. Col. Joseph Whipple took part in 
 the early settlement of Coos county. New 
 Hampshire, and was living at Jeff rson as 
 early as 1773 He was captored there by 
 the Indians during the Revolution, but 
 escaped. — "M<•.Clintocl^'s H story of New 
 Hampshire," B .ston, 1889, pages 305-307 
 He afterwards returned to Portsmouth. 
 When "Col. Joseph Whipple was 
 Oolle<!tor," he "tran-aited the business in 
 the office adj ining his residence on State 
 street.'' — "Hambles," I, 227. He "resided 
 in the house then and now standicg at the 
 northeasr. corner of State and Chestnut 
 streets, Portsmouth (Mo. 79 State S') " 
 Hannah, wife of Coi. J..seih Whip- 
 ple, died 30 January, 1811, aged 75 vears. 
 — "Preseniaion tf F.ags," page 21 ]" 
 
 i*'P.ingraphy of ttie Sigcers to the 
 
 DeclHr.itjcin oi Ir-'spendenee." 
 PhiiaUeli hia, 1824, Vol. V., pp. 75 77. 
 
 Two interesting letters on public 
 matters from General William Whipple to 
 Hon. Josiah Bartlett (who long served 
 together in Corgr s-), aated P>rtsmonth, 
 July 12, and September 13, 1778, will be 
 found in the "N. E H. G. Register," Vol. 
 XXX, pages 317-320. 
 
 JauBS Enssfill LowbH. 
 
 His Fortsmonth Ancestors. 
 
 It is a plpasure to the manv admirers of 
 James Russell Lowell in Portsmouth to 
 know that several generations of the ma 
 ternal ancestors of this most eminent poet, 
 essayist and statesman, whose recei t 
 death, 12 August, 1891, in Cambridge, 
 Mass. , has been mourned wherever the 
 English language is spoken, resided on 
 the banks of the P'scataqna, and that he. 
 and all of his father's family always had 
 a strong interest In the Portsmouth stock 
 from which they sprung. 
 
 That this interest was a reality was 
 
 shown only a few months since by the 
 kindly and generous gifts of Mr. Lowell,, 
 and of his sister aud niece, Mrs. and Miss 
 Putnam. In aid of the fund for the oil por- 
 traits of General William Whipple and 
 Admiral David G. Fairagut, soon to be 
 presented to the Portsmouth schools- 
 bearing those names, by Storer Post, No. 
 1, G A. R. , of this city. 
 
 James Russell Lowell, born 22 Feb- 
 ruary, 1819, In Cambridge, Mass , son 
 of Rev, Charles and Harriet (Spence) 
 Liwell, was grandson of Keith and 
 Mary (Traill) Spence of Portsmouth, and 
 great-grandson of Robert and Mary 
 (Whipple) Traill, also of Portsmouth. 
 
 Robert Traill, born In the Orkney Islands^ 
 was a distinguished merchant of Ports- 
 mouth, comptroller of the port until the 
 Revolution, and afterward collector of 
 the Island of Bermuda. He resided in 
 the house then and now standing at the 
 south A est corner of State and Fleet 
 streets (No. 82 State street). Mrs. 
 Traill survived her husband, and died) 
 3 October, 1791, aged 61 years, ihelr 
 only daughter, Mary, married Keith' 
 Spence, a merchant from Scotland, who- 
 settled in Portsmouth, Purser, U S. N. ,. 
 lSnn-1805, whom she survived, and died 
 10 January, 1824, aged 69. 
 
 Mr. Lowell's great grandmother, Mary 
 (Whipple) Traill, was a daughier of 
 Captain William Whipple, senior, and'" 
 Mary (Cutt) Whipple The latter died 24 
 Febnary, 1783, aged 84, and the asheo of 
 <'f Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Traill and Mrs., 
 Spence, three direct ancestors of Mr;. 
 Lowell, rest in the North cemetery, Ports- 
 mouth, where their stones may be seen' 
 on the rising ground near the center of 
 the cemetery close to the stone of their 
 distinguished son, brother and uncle. 
 General William Whipple, sitiner of the; 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 explain William Whipple, senior;, 
 resided In the "Whipple garrison? 
 house" In K.ttery, Me., previously 
 the home of Robtrt Cutt 'v2d) , 
 where Harrison J. Philbrick now 
 lives, and died 7 August, 1751, aged 
 56 Capt Whipple's stone and those of 
 Robert Cutt (2d), who died 24 September,. 
 1735, aged 69, and of Dorcas (Hammond) 
 Cutt who died 17 November, 1757, aged 
 83, his wife's father and mi)ther, a^e yet 
 standing in the cemeterv near the Cham- 
 p^rniwue Hotel in Kittery, so that a 
 pilgrimage to the graves of these four 
 generations of Mr. Lowell's ancestors 
 may, and doubtless will be often made in 
 the coming years by those residents In, 
 and visitors to our city, who enjoy the 
 wiltings and rejoice in the fame of this- 
 distinguished son of Portsmouth. 
 
34 
 
 Captain William Whipple, senior, 
 (Mailhew, John, John,) was born in Ips- 
 wich, M-^ss., whir.her his great grand- 
 father Elder John Whipple came from 
 Essex, Euglana, in or before 1639 [Oor- 
 rectfd— see page 27], and the Wh'pples 
 were Ipswich peop e, as related more at 
 length in the biographical not'ce of Gen 
 erai William Whipple, in the appendix to 
 ♦•The Presentation of Flags to the Schools 
 of Portsoiouth, N. H., October 9, 1890," 
 Porr.smnuih, 1890, page 20 [and on pages 
 27-33 of this pamphlet]. 
 
 Robert Cutt (21), however, was of this 
 locality, 8on ot Robert Cutt (1st), who 
 was a brother of John Cutt, President of 
 New Hampshire, 1(379, who with their 
 brother, Richard Can., came to this vicin- 
 ity previous to 1646 from Wales, as re- 
 lated, with much other information as to 
 the Cutt family, in the "Rambles about 
 Portsmouth" Series I, page 29, and Series 
 II. pages 142-153, and concerning whom 
 further interesting details will be found 
 on pages 20 and 21 of the pamphlet just 
 mentioned. 
 
 Robert Traill Spence, appointed mid- 
 shipman, U S N. , 15 May, 18uO, who dis- 
 tinguished himself in th- attack on 
 Tripoli, 7 August, 1804, as related in 
 •'Coopers Naval History," and who died 
 a captain, 26 September, 1826. was a 
 brother of Mr. Lowell's mother. 
 
 Madam Ebzabeth (Cutt) Lowell, whose 
 stone stands in the North cemetery near 
 that of General Whipple, was the General's 
 aunt, his mother's sister, and 'he dauah 
 ter of Robert (2d) and Dorcas C Hammond) 
 Cutt. She was "b >rn 20 March, 1710" 
 (or perhap-i earlier), and married, first, 
 Kev. Joseph Whipple, of Hampton Falls, 
 brother of Captain Wil iam Whipple, 
 senior, and second. Rev. John Lowell, of 
 Newburyport, Mas-*. , whom she also sur- 
 vived, and "died 22 September, 1805, aged 
 97." as stated on her gravestone She left 
 no descendants. 
 
 Rev. John Lowell, minister of New- 
 burvport, Mass., 1726-1767, who died in 
 1767, aged 63, (a descendant of Percival 
 L >well, of Bi-istol, England, who settled 
 in Newbury, Mass., in 1639, and died there 
 Id 1665.) was father ( f Judge John Low- 
 ell, 1743-1S02, grandfather of Rev. Cbarles 
 Lowell, 1782-1861, and great, grandfather 
 of James Ru»sell Lowell, who by his 
 great grandfather's second marriage with 
 Elizabeth (Cutt) Whipple, was thus again 
 connected with, though not in a second 
 line descf-nded from Robert Cutt;. (2d), and 
 Dorcas (Hammond) Cutt, of Kitiery. . . . 
 
 Further information of the maternal 
 ancestors of Mr. Lowell will doubtless be 
 found in the "Cutts Genealogy" soon to 
 
 be published by Cecil Hampden Cutts 
 Howard of Brooiilyn, N Y. 
 
 JosFPH Foster. 
 (Journal, 5 September, 1891.) 
 
 The foregoing article, with a few tin- 
 important changes, was also printed in 
 the "Magazine of American Historv" for 
 October ,"1891, Vol. XXVI, pages 312-318. 
 
 Additional Notes. 
 
 Dorcas (Hammond) Cutt, born in 1674, 
 wife of R )bert Cutt (2'1), was the daugh- 
 ter of Major Joseph Hstnmond, Kittery, 
 1680, born 1647, died 24 Februarv 1709-10; 
 who was the son of William Hammond, 
 of Wells, Maine, 1656. or earlier, a man 
 of consequence, grand juror, next year 
 clerk of the writs, and commissioner for 
 small causes until 1679. said to have been 
 b'>rn in 1597, died 1702. Major Joseph 
 Hammond was probably the major cairied 
 prisoner by the French, 1695. to Canada. 
 as "Hutchini-on," Vol II, pages 89 and 
 180, tells; and counsellor of Massachu- 
 setts. He left one son and two daughters. 
 
 Catharine, wife of Major Joseph 
 Hammond, was the daughter of Nicholas 
 Frost, born about 1595 at Tiverton, in 
 Devonshire, Eoglano, who came to 
 Kittery, pr-bably before 1632. and died 20 
 July, 1663; she was born in England, 
 coming to America with her lather and 
 mother, and married first, about 1G55, 
 William Leighton of Kittery, who died 
 September, 1666, and, second. Major 
 Joseph Hammond, whom she outlived; 
 and died 1 August, 171i^. 
 
 Col. Joseph Hammond, brother of Dor- 
 cas (Hammond) Cult, di"d in Eliot, 
 Maine, 26 January, 1753, aged 75. 
 
 ("Savage's Genealogical Piction- 
 ary," Boston, I86ii, Vol 11, pp. 212, 
 
 345, and 317-348, unci Vol. Ill, p 44. 
 Hee iilso"N. E. H. G. Rt gister," Vol. 
 
 IX, p. 312.) 
 
 The information concerning the 
 ancestors of Dorcas (Hammond) Cutt 
 given in the "Rambus about Ports- 
 mouth," series II, pages 145-146, is not 
 exact; and the statement in the "N. E. 
 H. G. Register," Vol. V. page 246, that 
 Major Joseph Hammond's father 
 supported, and Nicholas Frost opposed 
 Monmouth's rebellion in 1685, is erroneous, 
 as both emigrated to this country many 
 years before, and the latter died in 1663. 
 William Hammond was probably 
 an adherent of Oliver Cr 'mwell as stated 
 on page 32, but Nicholas Frost left 
 England long before the uprising against 
 Charles the 1st, who was executed 30 
 January. 1649. and therefore could hardly 
 be considered as having been one of hift 
 adherents as stated in the "Rambles." 
 
35 
 
 Mr. Iiowell'a Maternal Ancestors. 
 
 To THE Editors of the Critic: — 
 James Russell Lowell and tbe Rev. R bert 
 T. S Lowell were not sraodsons of Rob- 
 ert Traill Soence, an offl er of the Navy, 
 as statefl in . . . "Appleion's Cyclcpfdia 
 of American Biography" (Vol. IV, page 
 43) in its notice of the Rev. Ctiarles 
 liowell; bat wereCapt. Spence's nephews, 
 the children of his sister Harriet (Spence) 
 Lowell. 
 
 Capt. Robert Traill Spense, U S. N.. 
 was appointed a Midshipman 15 May, 
 1800, Lieutenant 17 February, 1807, Com- 
 mander 24 July, 1813. Captain 28 Febru- 
 ary, 1815, and died, 2G September, 1826— 
 aged 38 years. R*' oistinguished himself 
 af a Midshipman during the attack on 
 Tripoli, 7 August 1804, tlnishirg the load- 
 ing and tiriDg tbe long 26 pounder, of 
 wnich he was in charge as his vest-el sank 
 under the enemy's Are, as related in 
 "Cooper's Naval History." New York, 
 1866 (Vol. I , page 246). See also 
 "Galdsborough's Naval Curunicle " Wash 
 ingtor, 1824 (Vol. I., page 228), and 
 "Lessiog's Pictorial Field- Book of the 
 War of 1812 ' (page 121). . He was highly 
 praised by Commodores Treble acd Deca- 
 tur for his gallant conduct. He rose very 
 rapidly in the Navy, and in Commodore 
 R ger's report of S<-ptember 23, 1814, in 
 relation to the services of the naval 
 forces during the British attack on Balli 
 more in 1814, was spoken "f as a gallant 
 and meriioiious officer. (See als<> "Coop- 
 er's History," Vol.11., page 139) He 
 was a man of great information, and a 
 .good writer both in prose and poetry. 
 He was in command of the naval estab- 
 lishment at Baltimore for several year' 
 before his death, and is buried in Loudon 
 Park cemtterv near ihat city. 
 
 Capt. Spence's father (Mr. Lowell's 
 gra dfather), Keith Spence of Ports- 
 mouth, N, H., Purser, U S. N , 1800-05, 
 'a gentleman justly held in high estima- 
 tion for his probity, intelligence, and 
 nice sense of honor', 'was the bos' m 
 friend and mentor of Decatur' ("Golds- 
 borough's Chronicle," Vol. I, page 228) 
 He was Purser of the frigate 
 Philadelphia, when that vessel was 
 captured by the Tripolitans. 31 October, 
 1803 ("Cooper," Vol. I, page 226), and 
 
 was a prisoner in Tripoli during the at- 
 tack of 7 Augu-'t 1804, in which his son 
 distinguif-hed himself, as already men- 
 tioned. He died suddenly at New Or- 
 leans, and was buried there. 
 
 Tbe Hon. Carroll Spence of Baltimore, 
 Maryland, appointed Minister to Turkey 
 by President P'erce, and who negotiated 
 the flr.>*t treaty with Persia, is a son of 
 Capt Spence; and the late Commodore 
 f^harles Whipple Pickering, U. S. N.,of 
 Portsmouth, N H [son of Isaac and 
 Louisa Joseplia Whipple (Spence) Picker- 
 ing], was his nephew; both cousins of J. 
 R and R T S. Lowell. . . . 
 
 In the study of heredity, the female line 
 is often, as here, a mine of wealth. 
 
 Joseph Foster. 
 
 Portsmouth.. N. H , Sept., 1891. 
 
 (The Critic, New York, 10 Octt ber, 1*91.) 
 
 His Paternal Tlnoeslors. 
 
 James Russell Lowell "was of the 
 eighth generation [of the Lowells] in 
 this country .... The Rev. John 
 Lowell [of Newburyport, Mass.], James 
 Russell Lowell's great graDdfather," 
 [already meniioueo on page 34] 
 oeing the son "of Ebenezer Lowell of 
 Boston, shoemaker, and grandson of John 
 Lowell of Boston, a cooper The last 
 named John of Boston was the son of 
 of John Lowell of Newbury, and grand- 
 son of Percival Lowell, . who 
 came from Bristol [England] to Newbury 
 in 1639." 
 
 (F. L Gay. of Brookline. Mass , 
 The Critic, New York, 29 Augu.st, 1891.) 
 
 The Commemoration Cde. 
 
 "All will now admit James Russell 
 Lowell to have be^n the author of the 
 tln-^st single poem yet produced in this 
 countr> , the 'Commemoration Ode'." 
 
 {The Critic, New York, 22 August, 1891.) 
 
 In the study of Mr. Lowell's character 
 and works. It is worthy of remembrance 
 that Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of 
 Cambridge, Mass., James Russell Lowell's 
 literary execucor, says, that "many of 
 the most striking traits of Mr. Lowell's 
 character and genius came to him from 
 his mother's side." 
 
NOTICE. 
 
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 on receipt of twenty-five cents. 
 
 A copy of " The Preseutation of Flags to the Schools of Portsmouth, N. H., 
 October 9 1890, by Storer Post, No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of 
 New Hampshire, with an Appendix relating to the Whipple and Farragut Schools,"' 
 compiled by Joseph Foster, Pi. rt^mouth, 1890, 8yo, page^ 36; containing the ad- 
 dresses at the preseutation of Flags, with an account of the naming of the Whipple 
 and Farragut Schools ; a biographical notice of Geoeral William Whipple, with a 
 description of ad guide to the spots in Portsmouth and vicinity made ever memora- 
 ble as the birthplace, residence, and grave, of a Signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, and several letters written by him during the Revolution ; a sk«tch of Ati- 
 miral Farragut's life, with a notice of his funeral in Portsmouth, August 17, 1870;. 
 and some notes as to tlie names of the other Port^m uth schools; — of which only 
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