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it probably buried. Undoubtedly remains here also the rests of, very of
those which evident stand of names in our first government records."
IV. A Turn On City (it continued)
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789 he was not thrilled a lot from
the architecture of the small city in which you/he/she had been nearby so strongly him
the struggle for the independence. "There are some good houses", him
he/she writes, in a notebook that year held during a turn through Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Hampshire Nuovo "among which is Colonel Langdon it is able
the first one is esteemed; but in general they is indifferent, and almost
entirely of wood. On to wonder to this, as the country is full of stone
and the good clay for bricks, I was said that on account of the fogs and
dampen they held them to them wholesomer, and for that reason wood preferred
buildings."
The house of Colonel Langdon, on Pleasant Road it is an excellent sample
of the solid and dignified abodes that ours great-grandsires it had the
feels to build. The art of their construction seems to have been a lost
art these fifty years. Here Governor John Langdon resided from 1782
up to his/her death's duration in 1819--one period during that very a
illustrious men passed among those two white pillars that sustain the
small balcony on the anterior door; among the rest Luigi Philippe and
his/her brothers, the de of Ducs Montpensier and Beaujolais and the de of Marquis
Chastellus, a greater-general in the French army, serving under the Account
de Rochambeau that he accompanied from France to States in 1780.
The diary of the marquis contains this reference to its innkeeper: "Later
he/she dines that we have gone to drink tea with the Mr. Langdon. He is a beautiful man, and
of noble carriage; he has been a member of Congress, and now it is one
of the first people of the country; its house is elegant and well
furnished, and the apartments admirably well the wainscoted" (this law
as the Mr. Sam Pepys); "and he has a good chart of manuscript of the
I bring of Portsmouth. Mrs. Langdon, his/her wife is young, fair, and