. Leslie's history of the greater New York . hipbuilderof Portsmouth, ^\ilil(^ his motherwas Frances, daughter of JacobCutter, another Iortsmotith mer-chant. His grandfather, HenrySherbtirne Langdon, was offered the post of Private Secretary byAYashingtcm, but declined in deference to his father, who thought himtoo young to assume the responsibility. The latter, Hon. \\oodburyLangdon, ^Ir. Langdons great-grandfather, was a distingtiished mer-chant of Porlsmonth, member of the Continental Congress of 1779-80,member of the Executive (ouncil of Xew I lampshire from 1781 to 1790,Justice of the Xew
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . hipbuilderof Portsmouth, ^\ilil(^ his motherwas Frances, daughter of JacobCutter, another Iortsmotith mer-chant. His grandfather, HenrySherbtirne Langdon, was offered the post of Private Secretary byAYashingtcm, but declined in deference to his father, who thought himtoo young to assume the responsibility. The latter, Hon. \\oodburyLangdon, ^Ir. Langdons great-grandfather, was a distingtiished mer-chant of Porlsmonth, member of the Continental Congress of 1779-80,member of the Executive (ouncil of Xew I lampshire from 1781 to 1790,Justice of the Xew Hampshire Supreme Court in 1782, and again from1786 to 1790. His brother, Hon. J(din Langdon, was a member ofthe Continental Congress of 177.). S])eaker of the Xew HampshireAssembly in 1777, a Revolutionary patriot, who gave a large paitof his i)rivate fortune to equip the soldiers under General John Stark,who opposed Rurgo\ n<; a mend)er of Congress in 1783. a member ofthe Constitutional Convention of 1787 which framed the Constitution. WOODBUKY (;l> ENCYCLOPEDIA OF \E\\ YORK BIOGRAPHY. 385 of the United States, (utveiiior of New Ilaiiijisliire in ITSS, IuitedStates Senator in IT^lt, and iresident of the United States Senatefrom to 17it2, and. with the exceptiim of two years, (loveruorof New Hampshire from ISO.) To \SV2. lie declined tlie portfolio ofthe Secretary of the Navy in the Caliinet of Jefferson in 1801, and inINIL* de( lined the nomination as \iee-President of the United Slatesoffered him by the Kepnldican Conjuressional cancns. The late ^rancis E. , .).. State Senator of New Hampshire, was thebrother of Mr. \\oodbniy Lan^don, i>f New York City. The latter,after acqtiirinii a ^ood education, entered the euijiloy of Urothiniiham& Comiiany, a welhknown dryyoods commission house of Boston, andso ra]jidly made his wa\ in the confidence of his em])loyers that in1SG3 he came to New York to take charj^e (if the lirandi house of thefi
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