Note 246 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Of John Wentworth (b. 1672), lieut.-gov. of N. H. from 1717 to his death, in 1730, there is a portrait in the gallery of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Cf. Catal. Cabinet, Mass. Hist. Soc., no. 16; Proceedings, i. 124. Blackburn’s portrait of him is engraved in the Wentworth Genealogy, which gives a full account of the family, embracing the genealogical material earlier published in the N. E. H. & G. Reg., 1850, p. 321; 1863, p. 65; 1868, p. 120; also, 1878, p. 434.