. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. ahouse on this island. If you find an oldcellar hole here you can tell infalliblywhere the front door was. The sunwent around it in mid-summer, leav-ing it in shade from noon to sunset,and in winter shining upon it all day. The privilege of naming the Went-worth was granted to the writer (JohnAlbee) by the original projector, andwas chosen on account of its proxim-ity to the old Wentworth mansion,and its popular, widely known asso-ciations ; and also because the nameitself is well sounding and
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. ahouse on this island. If you find an oldcellar hole here you can tell infalliblywhere the front door was. The sunwent around it in mid-summer, leav-ing it in shade from noon to sunset,and in winter shining upon it all day. The privilege of naming the Went-worth was granted to the writer (JohnAlbee) by the original projector, andwas chosen on account of its proxim-ity to the old Wentworth mansion,and its popular, widely known asso-ciations ; and also because the nameitself is well sounding and slightlyaristocratic ; as much, however, fromits sound, as any immediate or gen-eral connection. At any rate it is alittle superior to those names of hotelsand of everything else, almost, in ourcountry, chosen arbitrarily and multi-plied indefinitely. Yet it has one weak-ness,—it was borrowed. But what,since Adams time, is not? We nolonger invent names ; we adopt andtransfer, and it is fortunate if theyprove to be appropriate. Samuel Wentworth, eldest son ofElder William Wentworth, the found-. er of the family, and the immediate ancestor of Governors John and Ben- ning Wentworth, was an inhabitant of New Castle from 1669 to 1678, andduring this time kept a tavern, hav-
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