Papers, 1776-1889.

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Papers, 1776-1889.

Letter (1776) from Langdon as a child to his father, Woodbury Langdon; ms. copy of letters (1814) from Johnston Blakeley, commander of the sloop of war Wasp to William Jones, secretary of the Navy regarding the death of Henry S. Langdon, Jr. and Frank Toscan of Portsmouth, N.H., with a copy of the Boston Patriot's notice of the deaths (1814); letter (1822) from Langdon to his brother-in-law William Eustis containing news of the family and Christmas greetings; and letters and notes from the 1880s concerning family genealogy.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8045548

Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum

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Langdon, Woodbury, 1739-1805

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Woodbury Langdon (1739 – January 13, 1805) was a merchant, statesman and justice from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was the brother of John Langdon, a Founding Father who served as both senator from and Governor of New Hampshire, and father-in-law of Edmund Roberts. Langdon attended the Latin grammar school at Portsmouth, then went into the counting house of Henry Sherburne, a prominent local merchant. When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, Langdon sailed to London to secure c...

Eustace family.

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Toscan, Frank, 1794-1814

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Eustice family

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Blakeley, Johnston, 1781-1815

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Eustis, William, 1753-1825

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Revolutionary War veteran, politician, and secretary of war. From the description of Letter, 1818 Oct. 20. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49215753 William Eustis was born in Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1772. He served as a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War and in the Massachusetts General Court (1788-1794). Eustis was a U.S. Representative for Massachusetts (1801-1804, 1820-1823), Secretary of War (1809-1813), Am...

Langdon, Henry Sherburne, 1764 or 1765-1858

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Bank cashier and agent, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; son of Henry S. Langdon. From the description of Papers, 1776-1889. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926543 ...

Langston family.

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Langdon, Henry S. (Henry Sherburne), 1796-1814

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Jones, William, 1760-1831

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U.S. secretary of the Navy, U.S. representative, Pennsylvania, and secretary of the Bank of the United States. From the description of Letter and portrait of William Jones, 1816. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423739 Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, worked as a printer and journalist. From the guide to the Benjamin Franklin Bache papers, 1779-1793, 1779-1793, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Wasp (Sloop)

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Langdon family

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