. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . nd sort whould be erected to their names, of Sarah Johnson, died after 1733. There should be published a family In fact, he may have died about 1740 history of the Dustons, commencing or 41, as in the latter year, his oldest with the ancestry of Thomas and son, Samuel, was granted a letter of Hannah, so far as known; and com- administration on his fathers estate, prising the latest of the descendants, In the probate papers, all of Timothys in both male and female lines as far children, as reco


. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . nd sort whould be erected to their names, of Sarah Johnson, died after 1733. There should be published a family In fact, he may have died about 1740 history of the Dustons, commencing or 41, as in the latter year, his oldest with the ancestry of Thomas and son, Samuel, was granted a letter of Hannah, so far as known; and com- administration on his fathers estate, prising the latest of the descendants, In the probate papers, all of Timothys in both male and female lines as far children, as recorded in Haverhill, are as can be ascertained. They had mentioned by name, and no others. nine children who lived to have fam- Who, then, was the father of the ilies; and over sixty grandchildren, other five Dustons, first mentioned in Down to the present time, a fairly this article? Nathaniel Duston, the complete record, would comprise son of Thomas and Hannah, had a many thousand descendants of the son Timothy, born Haverhill, 1716, celebrated pair,and he must have been the Timothy Dracut, SAMUEL HIDDEN WENTWORTH NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY SAMUEL H, WENTWORTH Samuel Hidden Wentworth, one of Bos-tons oldest practicing lawyers, a native ofthe town of Sandwich, born July 16, 1834,died at Hotel Bowdoin in Boston November10, 1912. He was a member of one of New Hamp-shires most noted families, which furnishedthe province three colonial governors in ante-Revolution days, a son of Paul Wentworth, aprominent merchant of Dover and Sandwichand a political leader in his time, and a directdescendant of Elder John Wentworth, con-spicuous in the early religious history ofDover. Among this brothers were Wentworth, late of Concord, and thefamous Long John Wentworth of Chicago,once Mayor of the city, representative inCongress and eminent as a lawyer. He attended Appleton Academy at NewIpswich and graduated from Harvard Collegein the class of 1858, and from Harvard LawSchool in 18


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