THE RICHEST MAN IN PORTSMOUTH. NEW HAMPSHIRE IS A SHIPBUILDER, A MERCHANT. ONE OF THE FIRST PATRIOTS. HE WAS AMONG THE MEN WHO ATTACKED FORT WILLIAM AND MARY. WHICH MANY HISTORIANS FIELD WAS THE ...

With Father’s Day looming, if I may, let’s focus this week on one of Portsmouth’s somewhat forgotten “Founding Fathers.” While it was William Whipple who signed the Declaration of Independence, it was ...

On Jan. 14, 1784, when the Treaty of Paris was ratified by the Continental Congress marking the end of the American Revolution, 42-year-old John Langdon of Portsmouth, N.H., could look back with ...

John Langdon was one of New Hampshire’s most effective leaders during the American Revolution and into the early years of the Republic. He was born in Portsmouth in 1741, the son of John Langdon, a ...