New Castle, historic and picturesque . to reside at the Little Harborseat, and married next Col. Michael Wentworth. Her daughter,by this husband, married Sir John Wentworth. Did I not saythe Wentworths Avere much mixed ? But we are not in pursuitof the family tree; three bulky volumes scarcely contain John was the last Wentworth who occupied the cannot say how it fared with Martha Hilton and her goutyGovernor; but, as he was sixty and she twenty, we can Avhen she married Col. Michael Wentworth she had more funand less grandeur. They lived a life of pleasure, and cont
New Castle, historic and picturesque . to reside at the Little Harborseat, and married next Col. Michael Wentworth. Her daughter,by this husband, married Sir John Wentworth. Did I not saythe Wentworths Avere much mixed ? But we are not in pursuitof the family tree; three bulky volumes scarcely contain John was the last Wentworth who occupied the cannot say how it fared with Martha Hilton and her goutyGovernor; but, as he was sixty and she twenty, we can Avhen she married Col. Michael Wentworth she had more funand less grandeur. They lived a life of pleasure, and contrivedto spend the whole of the fortune left by the Governor. It wasduring this period that they entertained Washington, after hisfamous fishing excursion off New Castle. It was in 1789 thatWashington made the tour of the Eastern States, and arrived inPortsmouth on the 31st of October. The next day being Sundayhe went to church twice, two different sects dividing the Monday, November 2d, Washington went a fishing, with a T-^. HISTORIC AND PICTURESQUE 75 band of music; in his diary lie complains of his luck, and nowonder I Tlie patriotic cod were all ready to be caught, buthow could they find the hook in the din of a brass band ? But afisherman had provided against all chance, with a cod ready atthe end of his line, which he handed to the Father of his draws him in, a shiny twelve-pounder, no poor-john, who givesa few gasps (w^hile the band plays Hail to the Chief ) and ex-pires, the most exalted codfish on record, not excepting that onewho presides over the deliberations of the Massachusetts Legisla-ture. I would he had been stufied and mounted, to place amongour New Castle antiquities; for he was of our own gens Washington passed Fort Constitution, on this excursion, hewas saluted with thirteen guns. When the fishing was over, hewas rowed up Little Harbor to the Wentworth mansion. Itis not recorded that he stopped at Blunts Island — that smallpoi
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