Sir John Wentworth
1737 – 1820

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Sir John Wentworth

Sir John Wentworth by Peter Landry
    http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1764-00/Wentworth.htm

Sir John Wentworth by Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wentworth_%28governor%29

John Wentworth II: the last Royal governor of New Hampshire
    http://www.state.nh.us/nhdhr/glikeness/wentjohnroy.html

Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution by Paul W.Wilderson
    http://www.dartmouth.edu/acad-inst/upne/0-87451-656-0.html

Government House
    http://lt.gov.ns.ca/inner/frames/government/content/history.html

Sir John Wentworth
    http://www.canadianheritage.org/reproductions/10240.htm

The Wentworths: a benevolent aristocratic family dynasty of appointed governors
...When Governor Wentworth discovered a mob pointing a cannon at his home,
he took the hint. Wentworth removed his family to Boston and later to Nova Scotia...
    http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/rev/

John Wentworth NH's last British leader did his best to keep peace,
but John and Frances Wentworth had to flee ... John Wentworth engendered
less ill-will among Americans than almost any other highly placed
British official in the colonies. Yet, in spite of favorable sentiment,
Wentworth could not avoid the decree of history and became one of the
tragic figures of the American Revolution...
    http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/wentworth.html

Proclamation by His Excellency John Wentworth, 10 March 1774
    http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe08/rbpe087/08701500/001dr.jpg

Governor Wentworth's Volunteers: Report of Formation 16 October 1777
    http://www.royalprovincial.com/military/rhist/govwent/gvwform.htm

Joshua Wentworth House ...John Wentworth's Wolfeboro house was palatial
in size. One hundred feet wide and forty deep, it was one of the great mansions
of New England. The Governor spent several summers in the house as work
continued on it. In 1775, however, as revolutionary events reached
New Hampshire, Wentworth left the province never to see Portsmouth
or Wolfeboro again...
    http://www.strawberybanke.org/museum/wentworth/wentworth.html

Wentworth Estate historic marker
    http://www.geocities.com/afka_bob/nhhistmk/nhhist053.htm

Governor Wentworth: letter to Governor Gage 14 December 1774
    http://www.izaak.unh.edu/exhibits/1774/WENT1.HTM

Governor Wentworth: letter to the Earl of Dartmouth 20 December 1774
    http://www.izaak.unh.edu/exhibits/1774/WENT3.HTM

Governor Wentworth: Official Proclamation 26 December 1774
    http://www.izaak.unh.edu/exhibits/1774/WENT4.HTM

Benning Wentworth

Benning Wentworth by Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benning_Wentworth