..Under the crown, American history; . of the 132 TWO HISTORIC LANDMARKS. church building is the ancient parsonage, builtin 1729. During a visit in Portsmouth, GeorgeWashington one day dropped down the harborto Kittery Point, made his way up across theparish green to this very house, and called uponDr. Benjamin Stevens, a graduate of Harvard, thefaithful minister for forty years at Kittery this old house is an interesting oldlibrary. Many of the books were after volume contains the Pepperrellcoat of arms and the baronetsautograph. Sir William be-queathed the col
..Under the crown, American history; . of the 132 TWO HISTORIC LANDMARKS. church building is the ancient parsonage, builtin 1729. During a visit in Portsmouth, GeorgeWashington one day dropped down the harborto Kittery Point, made his way up across theparish green to this very house, and called uponDr. Benjamin Stevens, a graduate of Harvard, thefaithful minister for forty years at Kittery this old house is an interesting oldlibrary. Many of the books were after volume contains the Pepperrellcoat of arms and the baronetsautograph. Sir William be-queathed the collection toDoctor Stevens. At that time there was nolibrary like it for miles a time the books werekept alternately at Kittery andYork, and were used as acirculating library;but they gradually fello0l^^ into disuse, and at last// were left permanently in the Kittery Point parish, where they logicallybelong. They are simply heirlooms and curi-osities now. On the fly-leaf of one of thebulkiest of the volumes is the name Joshua. TWO HISTORIC LANDMARKS. 133 Moody. This is of particular interest, becauseit is the autograph of the first minister of thefirst church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In1684 Mr. Moody was honored by an invitationto the presidency ofHarvard College, butdeclined the years afterward,in 1692, he was im-prisoned by commandof the lieutenant-governor, and laterbanished from the
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