Rockingham House collection, 1832-1836 (bulk 1833-1836).

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Rockingham House collection, 1832-1836 (bulk 1833-1836).

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Deeds, insurance policies, cashbooks, inventories, bills and receipts, and other papers, relating to the renovation and start-up costs of the Rockingham House, a public boarding house in Portsmouth, N.H., which was built in 1785 as the home of Judge Woodbury Langdon, later owned by Elwyn relatives, and subsequently sold to Joseph Wilson and other Portsmouth investors.

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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...

Wilson, Joseph, active 1832-1834

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Coburn, Thomas J.

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