New-England legends . s was re-cently uncovered. Lady Zerviah Stanley, whomade a love-match and escaped to this country POETSMOUTH. 37 from the wrath of h^r father, the Earl of are the Cnaunceys, itnmigrauts herethrough the persecuLions of Archbishop Laud,sprung of Chauncey de Chauacey,from Ohauuceynear Amiens in France, who entered Englandwith the Conqueror ; theii- head in this countrycould trace his noble descent back to Charle-magne, and back to Egbert in the year 800,lineage not excelled by Queen Victorias were the families of Pepperrell and Went- worth, baroneted fo
New-England legends . s was re-cently uncovered. Lady Zerviah Stanley, whomade a love-match and escaped to this country POETSMOUTH. 37 from the wrath of h^r father, the Earl of are the Cnaunceys, itnmigrauts herethrough the persecuLions of Archbishop Laud,sprung of Chauncey de Chauacey,from Ohauuceynear Amiens in France, who entered Englandwith the Conqueror ; theii- head in this countrycould trace his noble descent back to Charle-magne, and back to Egbert in the year 800,lineage not excelled by Queen Victorias were the families of Pepperrell and Went- worth, baroneted for illustrious deeds; andthere are to be found the first mention of theold naoies of Langdon, Frost, New march, Gush-ing, , Penhallow, names which revivethe traditions of a magnilicent was born Tobias Lear, the friend andsecretary of Washington, and his house re-mains to-day full of mementoes of Lis chief;there lived John Langdon, first President of theUnited States fcienate; the handsome face of. SHE HUNG OUT MANT A SIGNAL FROM HEB WINDOW FOR THE onVERNOR TO BEAD ACROSS THE OFEHSPACE BETWEEN THEIB DWELLINGS. 38 POETSMCUTH. Madame Scott, the widow of John Hancoclr, hasmany a lime looked out of that window ; therestands the house in which successively livedJeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster ; tliere thehandsome dwelling of Levi Woodbury, andthere were born the Blunts, whose cliarts to-day define the courses of all modern com-merce. Many other mansions of note are still stand-ing. Here on the corner of Daniel and Chapelrtreets, with its gamhrel-roof and lutliern-iights, is the old Warner House, the first brickhouse of the place, and whose material wasbrought from Holland ; there are still p; escrvedin it the gigantic pair of elk-horns presented tothe head of the house by the Indians with whomhe traded, and who, out of their skillfully-painted portraits, still look down at the guestwho mounts the staircase ; there are paintingsby Copley hanging in another plac
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