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	John Wentworth (mayor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Long" John Wentworth (March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
		Born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, John Wentworth was a huge man, towering 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) high and weighing more than 300 pounds (136 kg).
		Wentworth was educated at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1836.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wentworth_(mayor) (325 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Governor, Sir John Wentworth (1737-1820).
		Governor Wentworth, however, thought that he and his friends should just continue along with their outdated notion31 that the prerogative rights of the crown, as Wentworth represented, were not to be affected by the resolutions of the elected assembly.
		John Adams (1735-1826), one of Wentworth's class mates, leaves and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is sworn in as President of the United States; Jefferson was to serve from 1801 to 1809.
		It is to be remembered that John Parr was named the full Governor of Nova Scotia in 1782; and, I might say at this point was to continue on as the governor until his death in 1791, at which time John Wentworth, finally, was named as the governor of Nova Scotia.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1764-00/Wentworth.htm (12094 words)

	Royal Governor John Wentworth - Guide to Likeness of New Hampshire Officials and Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Wentworth II (1737-1820) was the second and last Royal governor of New Hampshire, 1767-1775.
		John Wentworth II graduated from Harvard College (Class of 1755).
		John Wentworth II was popular in New Hampshire.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/glikeness/wentjohnroy.html (522 words)

	Lt. Governor John Wentworth - Guide to Likeness of New Hampshire Officials and Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wentworth was a Massachusetts official, but he lived in New Hampshire and was responsible for administration of New Hampshire 1724-1728.
		Wentworth presented the border dispute as a struggle by "a poor little province" against a rapacious and arrogant Massachusetts.
		John Wentworth's portrait was painted by Joseph Blackburn in 1760, thirty years after Wentworth's death.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/glikeness/wentjohn.html (260 words)

	John Wentworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More directly, John wrote to Daniel Rindge in Portsmouth that the Stamp Act was "totally obnoxious" and clearly showed the previous administration's "ignorance of the Colonies." It is difficult to say how much influence Wentworth's opinion carried, but in the spring of 1766 the controversial act was repealed.
		Wentworth wanted to divide the province into five counties, thus sparing those living on the frontier the hardship of long trips to Portsmouth to conduct all their legal business.
		Wentworth felt it was the British government's prerogative to pass any acts, right or wrong, concerning the colonies, and he told the provincial Assembly it was their duty to declare "their Obedience to the Authority of Parliament in all Cases." As governor, his job was to uphold that authority.
	www.seacoastnh.com /framers/wentworth.html (1699 words)

	William Wentworth
		Her maiden name was Wentworth, and, although her earliest attachment was for John Wentworth, during his first visit to England, she married Theodore Atkinson, a kinsman of both.
		Her portrait by John Singleton Copley is considered an "excellent likeness and a rare picture." The towns of Francestown, Deering, and Wentworth, New Hampshire, perpetuate her name.--Their son, CHARLES MARY, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1775; died in Hingsand, Devonport, England, in April, 1844, was long private secretary to the Earl of Fitzwilliam.
		Wentworth had been a member of the Illinois state board of agriculture, and was the largest real estate owner in Cook county.
	www.famousamericans.net /williamwentworth (2120 words)

	John Wentworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Wentworth (1671-1730), colonial Lt.-Governor of New Hampshire
		John Wentworth (1737-1820), colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia
		John Wentworth (1768-1820), Attorney General of Prince Edward Island and New Hampshire lawyer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wentworth (115 words)

	Joshua Wentworth House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The large size of the Joshua Wentworth House is in keeping with its history, for this is the only house in Strawbery Banke that is closely connected with New Hampshire's most powerful colonial family, the Wentworths.
		Born in 1742, Joshua Wentworth was a grandson of Lt. Governor John Wentworth, nephew of Governor Benning Wentworth and cousin of New Hampshire's last royal governor, another John Wentworth.
		When John Wentworth fled in a small boat from the back yard of his Portsmouth home in June 1775, the woodwork for his Wolfeboro house may still have lain in the shop where it was made.
	www.strawberybanke.org /museum/wentworth/wentworth.html (1040 words)

	SeacoastNH.com - The John Wentworth Summer House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Wentworth’s 1769 summer mansion in Wolfeboro is that the reconstructed stone foundation survives.
		John Wentworth and his Portsmouth wife Frances went first to Boston and then built an even grander mansion in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		Lawrence Shaw Mayo, author of a biography of John Wentworth, purchased the property in 1925 and turned it over to the state in 1933.
	seacoastnh.com /.../Historic_Tours/The_John_Wentworth_Summer_House (880 words)

	Wolfeboro in 1770 - Bowers and Merena Auctions Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Wentworth, born in Portsmouth in 1737, the son of merchant Mark Hunking Wentworth, was the last colonial governor of New Hampshire.
		John Wentworth gives notice that the General Court having empowered him to receive in demand 10,000 gallons of West India rum from the several towns in the state in lieu of other taxes, he is ready for it and requests delinquent towns to hand it over.
		Wentworth, who was still liked by the citizens of New Hampshire, remained in America for the next two years, apparently believing that the war would come to a peaceful conclusion.
	www.bowersandmerena.com /articles/article_view.chtml?universeid=494&artid=3676&type=1 (2200 words)

	Family Pictures
		Elder William Wentworth was born 1615 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England and died March 15, 1696/97 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.
		John Wentworth was born July 20, 1679 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire and died December 24, 1717 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.
		John Piper Wentworth was born February 17, 1834 in Orono, Penobscot co., Maine and died April 18, 1905 in Alpena, Alpena co., Michigan.
	alexandercarr.freehomepage.com /photo.html (1068 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of John Wentworth, Jr.
		John Wentworth was the descendant and relative of the Wentworths who so long held the highest offices in :New Hampshire.
		His uncle was Benning Wentworth, who held the gubernatorial office twenty-five years, and who himself was the son of a lieutenant-governor.
		Young Wentworth was an active member of the Congress which framed the Articles of Confederation, and a worthy colleague of Josiah Bartlett.
	www.colonialhall.com /wentworth/wentworth.php (149 words)

	Wentworth, New Hampshire
		When John Wentworth succeeded his uncle as governor, one of his first acts was to grant the tract to a group of settlers, naming it Wentworth in his uncle's honor.
		Wentworth is in the Baker River Valley near Carr Mountain.
		Overall, Wentworth's population increased by 385 residents, going from 413 in 1950 to 798 residents in 2000.
	www.nhes.state.nh.us /elmi/htmlprofiles/wentworth.html (306 words)

	John Flude's Medal
		Either the miniature itself or a photograph of it was used in 1875, when Ulysses D. Tenney painted an oil-on-canvas portrait of John Wheelock at the request of Benjamin E Prescott 1856, Who became governor of New Hampshire in 1877 and who donated the painting to the College in 1880.
		The medal weighs 62 pennyweight (96.5 grams) and measures 127.6 by 80.3 mm; the distance between the centers of obverse and reverse is 22.6 mm.
		In August 1776, together with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, Thomas Jefferson served on the first commission to recommend a design for a seal of the United States of America; the proposal of this commission was not adopted.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1991/LB-N91-Hoefnagel.html (3278 words)

	History of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
		Governor's health; be this as it may, Wentworth fell into a lethargy and died on the 12th day of December, 1730, in the 59th year of age.
		John Goffe, Junior settled at the "Cohas," before or about the same time with his brothers-in-law, Lingfield and Kidder; probably in 1722, at which time he was married, and also was named in the Charter as one of the grantees of Londonderry.
		John Goffe, his father, was a member of Dr. Increase Mather's Church as early as 1676, and is said to have come to this country in 1662 or 63.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/chap10.html (4258 words)

	Ed Galvin's McAllister Genealogy Page
		JOHN WENTWORTH McALLISTER, son of John and Anna (Steele) McAllister was born at Amherst, N.H. in 1784 (g.r.), and died 1 May 1849, aged 65 years, at Rochester, Vt.
		In 1840 John W. was still living in Goshen, on a farm of 240 acres, 210 of which were in the Town of Chittenden, which he sold to his son William Ira McAllister of Whiting on 24 Sept. 1842 for $400.
		John Wentworth McAllister was listed as a stonemason in a biography of his grandson Eli.
	web.syr.edu /~elgalvin/gen/mca.htm (1122 words)

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		Thomas Augustus Wentworth was born in Brooks, Maine February 11, 1832.
		Arabella Wentworth was born in Thomaston, Maine June 17, 1838.
		John Sumner Wentworth was born in Thomaston, Maine June 23, 1841.
	members.aol.com /lwhitcomb/ljwanc/d0/i0001502.htm (224 words)

	Crikey Website - John Howard's Wentworth wipeout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Wentworth preselection is one of the most dramatic preselections the Liberal Party has seen since the fall of the Fraser Government.
		He panicked in the face of John Hewson’s zero tariff policy as shadow industry minister in the lead up to the 1993 election, the Hindmarsh Island papers scandal forced him from the Opposition frontbench in 1994, he became Defence Minister in 1996, served without distinction for two years and retired from the Parliament.
		John Howard’s own have just dealt the Prime Minister a great whack of a blow that he doesn’t need – and has only copped thanks to their stupidity.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/02/29-0001.html (1460 words)

	Wentworth, Sir John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Portsmouth, N.H. On the forced resignation of his uncle, Benning Wentworth, he was commissioned (Aug., 1766) to succeed him both as governor of New Hampshire and as surveyor of the king's woods in North America.
		However, he was thoroughly loyal to the king and prorogued the assembly when it attempted to form (1774) a committee of correspondence.
		While governor of New Hampshire, Wentworth granted (1769) Dartmouth College its charter and was a member of its original board of trustees.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wentwortj1.asp (344 words)

	Mayor "Long John" Wentworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On one occasion, Mayor Wentworth introduced the Prince of Wales from the balcony of the Tremont House Hotel to a crowd below.
		Wentworth chose to have the tallest monument at Rosehill, a 72-foot obelisk erected before his death at a cost of $38,000.
		His wife and children are not buried here, but their names and dates appear on the back of the obelisk.
	www.graveyards.com /rosehill/wentworth.html (126 words)

	Vermont History: Benning Wentworth
		Starting with Bennington in 1749, Wentworth granted (read: sold) to speculators large tracts of land (towns) in what would become Vermont, despite claims on the territory by the Province of New York and a subsequent Royal Order to discontinue the activity.
		Wentworth's "New Hampshire Grants" set the stage for a bitter struggle between "Yorkers" and settlers who, having bought land from the speculators, had endured the hardships of making a life in a wilderness.
		While King George II had placed the eastern boundary of New York 20 miles east of and parallel to the Hudson River (roughly its present location), his grandson, George III, decreed the Connecticut River to be the boundary, invalidating settlers' claims to the land.
	www.virtualvermont.com /history/bwentworth.html (592 words)

	Three Men from New Hampton School
		Wentworth entered newspaper work and soon became owner of the Daily Democrat, and made it for years the leading paper in the Northwest.
		The second reference to Wentworth in "The Coming Fury" is on page 54: "Mayor Wentworth had warned Lincoln to ‘look out for prominence.’ The convention would finally realize Wentworth said, that a really prominent candidate could not be chosen; then the man who had avoided prominence would have his chance.
		New Hampton School is proud of this trio: Long John Wentworth, New Hampton 1831, Governor Frederick Smyth, New Hampton trustee, George Gilman Fogg, New Hampton 1835, all of whom did so much to elevate Abraham Lincoln to leadership in a time of great crisis in the history of the United States.
	www.mv.com /ipusers/lionmedia/three_men_from_new_hampton_schoo.html (1474 words)

	John Calhoun, first printer in Chicago - Spurius Press
		In the end it was Wentworth who took over Hill’s agreement and finally purchased the paper.
		John, “Long John,” Wentworth, age 21, took over the payments Hill had agreed to at the urging of several leading citizens who became share holders in the paper.
		John Wentworth later went on to become mayor of Chicago.
	www.nobodoni.com /calhoun.html (1094 words)

	Wentworth Institute of Technology: News & Events > Wentworth President John Van Domelen Announces Retirement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On September 24, 2004, Dr. John Francis Van Domelen, third President of Wentworth Institute of Technology, announced to the Wentworth community his plans to retire following a 15-year tenure as the Institute's leader, effective July 1, 2005.
		In his years as President, Van Domelen has helped Wentworth grow and thrive with projects including its transition from a primarily commuter college to a residential campus, the upgrading of its physical facilities, including classrooms, laboratories, studios and offices, and the improvement of student services.
		He climbed the ranks at Norwich, being appointed as Head of the Department of Engineering and Technology in 1979, as Head of the Division of Engineering and Technology in 1983, and as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty in 1985.
	www.wit.edu /witnews/news_Van_Dom.html (436 words)

	The Wentworth Letter
		John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat, wrote Joseph Smith in 1842 to request information about the Church for a friend who was writing a history of New Hampshire.
		The "Wentworth Letter" was written by the Prophet Joseph Smith in response to this inquiry.
		John Wentworth, Editor and Proprietor of the Chicago Democrat.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/people/joseph_smith/wentworth.htm (1663 words)

	History of every New Hampshire Town Every Link in Wolfeboro, NH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, 1751, as New Breton, Breton being the name of the Cape at which the famous battle of Louisbourg was fought.
		Peg anted 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth as Charles town, the surname of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles.
		Regranted as Fairfield by Governor John Wentworth, 1771.
	www.wolfeboroonline.com /towninfo/statistics/nhtowns.html (6568 words)

	HLS Library: English Deeds Collection 701-800
		SUMMARY: Grant by John Chocke, knight, to Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lovelle, knight, Richard Ryven, and John Tauntone, of all his lands and tenements with their appurtenances in Westhorpetre and Dounhege (Somers.), to hold to the use of John Pole, his heirs and assigns, for ever, by the customary rents and services.
		With a note stating that the charter was duly recognized in the court of John Gybon on 10 September.
		SUMMARY: Bond of John Freeman of Chelmsford (Essex), gentleman, to Robert Rownd of Chelmsford, mercer, in the sum of 200 to secure the observance by John Freeman of all the covenants in a pair of indentures of even date.
	www.law.harvard.edu /library/collections/special/manuscripts/deeds/deeds9.php (4740 words)

	WENTWORTH
		"Roger Wentworth of South Kirkby, Esqe, Second Son of Sir Thomas Wentworth of North Elmshall Marryed Eliz Daughter and sole heir of Mr John Wentworth of Poulepott and had issue Thomas, William, John, Henry and Isabel, Marryed to Lione Portington of Barnybydunn Esqe, Eliz Marryed to Sir Nicholas Fitzwilliams of Bently near Doncaster".
		Notes: "Sir Thomas Wentworth of South Kirkby Son, Heir of Roger Wentworth Marryed Eliz Daughter and Heir of Sir William Flinthill and had issue Sir Thomas, Roger, Christopher, Hugh and Alice Marryed to John Barker Esqe, Isabel Marryed to Thomas Fliteholle Esqe".
		Notes: "Michael Wentworth of Martersy Hall Esqe, a Younger Son of Sir William Wentworth of South Kirkby Marryed Janet Daughter of Mr Birkland of Newark and had issue Michael, Marryed to the Daughter of Sir Alexander Radliffe, Darcy living in Ireland, Robert dyed, Ann Marryed to Mr O'Knowvill".
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /WENTWORTH.htm (1522 words)

	COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections
		William WALDEGRAVE and Margery WENTWORTH were married in 1482 in Codham, Yorkshire, England.
		Roger WENTWORTH and Margaret DESPENCER were married in Jun 1423 in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England.
		John C. Nathaniel GRINNELL, Ruth Delilah GRINNELL, Nancy GRINNELL,
	fp.enter.net /~mkuhn/b338.htm (673 words)

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