New Castle, historic and picturesque . e of no common anatomy. Among them, I remembera real Romeo and Juliet; a pair of nineteen-year-old and desper-ately unfortunate lovers, who divided a phial of poison, drank anddied. Browning has indeed written into tragedy the history ofone Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford; and that title, as well asanother belonging to the family, Rockingham, are perpetuated inthe names of two New Hampshire counties. The Wentworthgenealogies have been compiled in three volumes by Hon. JohnWentworth of Chicago, in the most minute manner, through alltheir windings. If anyo
New Castle, historic and picturesque . e of no common anatomy. Among them, I remembera real Romeo and Juliet; a pair of nineteen-year-old and desper-ately unfortunate lovers, who divided a phial of poison, drank anddied. Browning has indeed written into tragedy the history ofone Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford; and that title, as well asanother belonging to the family, Rockingham, are perpetuated inthe names of two New Hampshire counties. The Wentworthgenealogies have been compiled in three volumes by Hon. JohnWentworth of Chicago, in the most minute manner, through alltheir windings. If anyone should suppose himself to be athorough-going plebeian, let him hunt these books, and perhapshe will be as astonished as the writer of these pages, to find somematernal great-grandmother was a Wentworth, and that he hascrept into the house by even a back door. If you go to the Wentworth mansion by water, which is bjfar the more interesting way of approach, you can, after thevisit, keep on and make a boat-excursion up Sagamore creek,. HISTORIC AND PICTUItESqUE 77 one of the ancient portions of New Castle. This creek can onlybe seen to advantage from a boat. Crossing it on a bridge isnot seeing it. As before remarked, a creek is best taken witha good deal of water. Go up, then, on an afternoon orsunset tide, and stay for the ebb. You see then, and becomea part of, tlie magical process by which a sea-creek is trans-formed and made beautiful or desolated, by the semi-diurnalimpulse of the ocean stream. Life here has had, too, itsflux and its ebb; not much is now left but memories. Fam-ilies of renown originated here; their houses once studdedthe shores. I have spokeu of the two movements of thefamilies who made the first settlement on Odiornes Point:one to New Castle, and up the shores of the Piscataqua; theother worked its way through forest and meadow to the head ofSagamore creek. The first was bent on trade, shipping andfishing; the other devoted itself to agriculture, and fou
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