Annals of Portsmouth, comprising a period of two hundred years from the first settlement of the town; with biographical sketches of a few of the inhabitants

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ANNALS or PORTSMOUTH, COMPRISING A PERIOD OF TWO HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF A JEW OF THE MOST RESPECTABLE INHABITANTS BY NATHANIEL ADAMS. This shall be written for *V feni-ration to come psalms. Tell ye your children oi it, aud let your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.. .. joei. PORTSMOUTH ■ PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1825. C. Norris, Printer, Exeter, DISTRICT OF NEW-IIAMPSHIR^, to ivU : District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentf-^Pcond day of November, A. D. 1824, anil in the forty-ninth year of the Independence ofthe United States of America, Nathaniel Adams ofthe said Districts, has deposited in this Office, the Titleof a Book the right whereof he claims us Author in the words following, to tcit : Aunals of Portsmouth, comprising a period of two hundred years, from the first settlement ofthe Town; with Biographical sketches of a few ofthe most respectable Inhabitants.

By Nathaniel Adams. This anal' be written for the generations to come. Psalms. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. Joel. In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for th« encouragement of Learning, by .securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Au thors and Proprietors of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned :" and aiso to an Act entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learn ing., by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to tbe Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints."

WILLIAM CLAGGETT, Clerk ofthe District of New- Hampshire* A true Copy of Recvrd, Attest-WILLIAM CLAGGETT, Clerk. itetfget* The preservation of such facts, as will be useful to the future historian, is of public importance. Those which depend on memory, or have been long hand ed down by tradition, are liable either to be forgot ten or misrepresented. They should, therefore, be carefully collected from time to time and deposited in such archives, as are prepared for them. Since the invention of the art of printing, the best mode of preserving historical facts, is by the press. The record of them is thereby multiplied, and the knowledge of them extensively communicated. Every one should be acquainted with the origin and progress of the society to which he belongs. It is gratifying to the curiosity to learn the events of former days, in which our ancestors took an active part ; to hear of the hardships and perils which they encountered, and the fortitude with which they en dured them ; to see the advances they made in ob taining the comforts and conveniences of life, and the state of independence and ease, in which they have placed their descendants.