Rand. From that time his success was assured, and they were able to afford a very luxurious style of living. When the portrait was finished the duke gave them a dinner, and introduced them to many members of the nobility. Many years after, in the days of their poverty, she would enjoy speaking of this entertainment and its magnificence; but to Mr. Rand it was painful, and he would interrupt her with, "That is past and gone, my dear: don't let us try to bring it back." Dr. Booth, and Dr. Williams, the late eminent scholar and Baptist divine, officiating. William Cullen Bryant was an intimate, life-long friend, and, with other distinguished poets and artists, followed him to his last resting-place. He left no children, and his widow survived him but a few years. No costly monument of granite or marble marks the spot where repose the remains of Mr. Rand; but he has left to his friends the memory of a character crowned with integrity, virtue, and religious faith, worthy of all imitation, while both in this country and in Europe remain many enduring monuments of his skill as an artist, and thousands who never knew him are to-day enjoying the fruits of his If I have been correctly informed, Mr. Rand died in New York city in the year 1873, and was buried in Woodlawn cemetery. His funeral services were conducted in the chapel of Dr. Booth's church, Presbyterian, inventive genius. "GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW." The origin of those whom the world has called great-men who have written their names indelibly upon the pages of history-is often of the humblest character. Such men have most frequently risen from the ranks. Genius ignores all social barriers, and springs forth wherever heaven has dropped the seed. The grandest characters known in art, literature, and the useful inventions have illustrated the axiom that "brave deeds are the ancestors of brave men;" and it would appear that an element of hardship is almost necessary to the effective development of true genius. That these facts are almost incapable of just denial, Mr. Maturin M. Ballou further demonstrates in his deeply interesting book, "Genius in Sunshine and Shadow, which Messrs. Ticknor & Company, of Boston, send to our table. Mr. Ballou has, in his volume of three hundred pages, brought together the most curiously interesting collection of facts bearing out the above state ments that it has been our pleasure to read. He has drawn from the pages of history and his own memory illustrious examples of the development of genius, even amid the most uninviting and unfavorable surroundings. Daniel De Foe, Keats, Oliver Cromwell, Hugh Miller, John Bunyan, Benjamin Franklin, Elihu Burritt, Benjamin West, and hundreds of others, are cited as instances to illustrate that genius is independent of circumstances. A galaxy of the names of the world's great men is presented to demonstrate the fact that the humblest may rise to be the greatest. In another chapter, Mr. Ballou effectually dispels, by practial illustrations, the axiom that youth and rashness dwell together. Evidence is given, ample and sufficient, that youth is the period of deeds, when the senses are unworn and the whole man is in vigor of strength and earnestness. Mr. Ballou's book is crowded full of interest from cover to cover. -Brooklyn Magazine. 6 One of Gov. Wentworth's Last Official Acts. ONE OF GOV. WENTWORTH'S LAST OFFICIAL ACTS. I send you a copy of an original document which I have sent to the New Hampshire Historical Society. The wording of the document makes it quite a curiosity. The entire document is in the governor's hand-writing, and it is attested by no secretary. It is one of the governor's last official acts. He attempted to exercise no authority in the state after July, 1775. Who this Stephen Peabody was, I have no means of knowing. It was Nathaniel Peabody, of Atkinson, who was the member of the Continental Congress; and Oliver Peabody, of Exeter, who was the state senator for many years. Please search the list of representatives from Amherst in Revolutionary times, and you may find that it was in the capacity of representative that he gave offence to the Commission to him given and the Laws in force within our said Province he as a Coroner is authorized to do and perform to which appointment the said Stephen Peabody was afterwards sworn. And whereas it now appears to us not to be consistent with Our Honor and the good of our Subjects of our said County that the said Stephen Peabody should be any longer continued in the said office; We do therefore by and with the advise of our aforesaid John Wentworth, Esq, our Governor and Commander in Chief as aforesaid hereby supersede the said Commission and appointment of the said Stephen Peabody to the office of a Coroner within our said County of Hillsborough and do forbid his acting therein for the future to every intent and purpose and hereby declare any and every such acts to be null and void. You are therefore hereby required to make known to the said Stephen Peabody this our will and pleasure and make due return hereof and of your doings therein into the Secretary's office of our said Province on or before the thirtieth day of April LOCALITIES IN ANCIENT DOVER.-Part II. BY JOHN R. HAM, M. D. GOAT ISLAND. The large island in Pascataqua river, and so called as early as 1652, lying a little to the west of the mouth of Back river, and just below the mouth of Little Bay, near to the Durham shore. It was granted in 1652 to Lieut. William Pomfrett, and he conveyed it as a gift to his grandson William, the son of Deacon John Dame. When the Pascataqua bridge was built, in 1794, from Durham to Newington, the road crossed this island. GODDARD'S CREEK. So called as early as 1660; it was the first creek eastward of Lamprey river, in Durham, and flows into Great Bay. It divided in part the counties of Rockingham and Strafford, until 1870, when the line was set over, and a slice of Strafford county was cut off. GREAT BAY (THE). The body of water formed by the junction of the Squamscot, Lamprey, and Oyster rivers, and which at the Little Bay becomes the Pascataqua river. The settlers called it the Bay of Pascataquack. GREAT HILL (THE). The name which was given as early as 1652, to what in 1659 was called "The Cochecho Great Hill," which from 1700 to 1834 was called Varney's hill, and which since 1834 has, commonly but erroneously, been called Garrison hill. Whitehouse's map of Dover in 1834 calls it Varney's hill. GREAT POND (THE). The name which as early as 1650 was given to the pond, which in 1674 was called Cochecho pond. The latter name is retained on Dover maps to this day; but it is commonly called Willand's pond. GREENLAND. So called as early as 1696 in land grants, viz., "on the road leading to Greenland." It is the town of that name. GULF (THE). The name given as early as 1656, to a swell in Cochecho river, just below the head of tide water, and which is retained to this day. HALF WAY SWAMP (THE). The swamp, so called as early as 1652, lying south and west of Garrison hill, south of Starbuck's brook, and on the left side of the "Cartway" which leads from the falls of the river to the "Great Cochecho Fresh Marsh," which lay just to the north of Garrison hill. It was half-way from the falls to the last named marsh, and the "Cartway" of 1652 is the present Garrison Hill road. HARTFORD'S FERRY. In 1717, Nicholas Hartford opened a ferry between Beck's Slip on Dover Neck and Kittery. HAYES'S GARRISON. In 1812 the garrison of Lieut. Jonathan Hayes, at the junction of the Tole End road and the cross road that runs to the second falls of the Cochecho, and at the foot of Winkley's hill, was pulled down. Lieut. Jonathan Hayes was born Apr. 17, 1732 and died Apr. 15, 1787. HAYSTACK (THE). So called in Jonas Binn's grant in 1654. It was near Branson's creek, on the west side of Oyster river, near the mouth of the river. What was it? HEARD'S GARRISON. Capt. John Heard's garrison, which was successfully defended in the Indian massacre of Cochecho on June 28, 1689, was on the opposite side of the "cartway" leading past the Great Hill. The hill on which it stood is at the foot of the Great Hill, and directly west of the same. The "cartway" is the present Garrison Hill road. eel river, just below Wadleigh's falls; it is in the present town of Lee. One HOOK MILLs. There are two hook mills named in the land grants. was at the hook of the Lampereel river, near Wadleigh's falls, and one near the hook of the Belloman's Bank river. The hook mill on Bellamy river was mentioned as early as 1729. HOPE HOOD'S POINT. A point of HEROD'S COVE. So called in 1664, land thus named as early as 1694, on and was in Great Bay. HEROD'S POINT. A point of land, so called as early as 1650, in Dea. John Dam's grant, extending in Great Bay on its south side. HEROD'S WIGWAM. There was an Indian named Herod who had a wigwam on a point of land of same name, in Great Bay, in 1650. The Dam grant mentions both the point and the wigwam HICKS'S HILL. See Mahorimet's hill. HILTON'S POINT. The point of land at the extremity of Dover Neck, named from Edward Hilton, where the settlement was made in 1623, and which settlement took the name of Dover in 1639. The Indian name of the point was Wecanacohunt, sometimes called Wecohamet and Winnichahannat. Hilton's patent calls it Wecanacohunt. It is now called Dover Point. HOGSTYE COVE. So called as early as 1652, and it was the west end of the southern boundary of Dover, now of Newington, on Great Bay. HOGSTYE POINT. A point of land in Newington, so called as early as 1656. HOOKS. A remarkable turn in Belloman's Bank river, just below the entrance of the Mallego, and so called as early as 1694. The name was also given to a remarkable turn in Lamper the north side of the "Three Creeks," on the western side of Back River. Tradition says Hope Hood, a Sagamore and famous Indian chief, was buried there. Hope Hood (alias Wahowah), with three other Indians, sold land on January 3, 1687, to Peter Coffin, of Dover, and they called themselves in the conveyance the native proprietors. The deed is recorded at Exeter. In the French and Indian massacre at Salmon Falls, on March 18, 1690, Hope Hood had twenty-five Indians under him, and was allied to a party of twenty-seven French under Sieur Hertel. Thirty settlers were killed and fifty-four captured. Hope Hood was killed (says Mather) in 1690, and the same writer speaks of him as "that memorable tygre, Hope Hood." This point with land adjacent was granted to John Tuttle in 1642, and remained in possession of the family till about 1870. Whitehouse's map in 1834 erroneously calls it Hopewood's Point. HUCKINS'S GARRISON, in Oyster River parish, east of the Woodman garrison, was destroyed by the Indians, and twenty-one or twenty-two people massacred, in August, 1689. HUCKLEBERRY HILL. The name given as early as 1658, and which is still retained, to a hill on the Dover Neck road. It is the long hill which one ascends before reaching the highest elevation on the neck. HUCKLEBERRY SWAMP. It was the Hilton Point swamp, and was laid out in 1652 as the Ox Pasture. INDIAN BROOK. The brook which flows into Cochecho river on the eastern side, and next above the fourth falls of the same. The name was used as early as 1701 (Varney grant), and its origin is unknown. It crosses the "Scatterwit" road, and runs through the farm of Alderman Nathaniel Horne. INDIAN CORN Ground. A tract of land lying between Tole End and Barbadoes pond, and thus called as early as 1693, from which the settlers had land grants from time to time. Probably used by the Indians for cultivating their corn prior to the settle ment. INDIAN GRAVES. A locality on the west end of Beach hill, in the northeast corner of the town of Durham, and so called as early as 1652. In that year Philip Chesley had a grant of land from the town containing seventy-eight acres, "att ye Indian Graves," and in 1715 the Lot Layers resurveyed it, and described the bounds as "beginning att the Indian Graves, att Beach Hill, commonly so called." Another Indian burial-ground, according to a land grant in 1659 to Benjamin Hull, was on the south-west side of Lampereel river, not far west of a mill that stood on the falls, and exactly on the town line between Dover and Exeter, that is, on the town line between the towns of Durham and Newmarket, as it existed till 1870. INDIGO HILL. A hill in Somersworth, about three fourths of a mile below Great Falls, and so called as early as 1693. A road was laid out in 1720 by the town of Dover, “between Quamphegan and Indigo Hill and beyond into the common." This road ran directly over Indigo hill, and is now closed up at that point. The new road between Salmon Falls and Great Falls leaves the hill on the right hand side between the road and the river. JOHNSON'S CREEK. This name was given as early as 1652 to a brook which flows into Oyster river on the eastern side and next above Bunker's creek. Thomas Johnson had a land grant there, and the stream perpetuates his name. KNIGHT'S FERRY. The old ferry tween Dover Point and Bloody Point. LAMPEREEL RIVER. So called as early as 1650, when Chris. Lawson and George Barlow had permission from the town of Exeter to set up a saw-mill at Lampereel river, "a little above the wigwams;" but prior to this date, in 1647, it was called Campron river, and Elders Starbuck and Nutter of the Dover church had sawmills on the first falls, where the cotton mills of Newmarket now stand. The Indian name of the first falls was Pascassick, sometimes written Piscassick, and again Puscassick. One of the western branches is now called the Piscassick. The stream is now called Lamprey river. LITTLE JOHN'S CREEK. Little John was an Indian, and his name was given as early as 1654 to the only brook that crosses the Dover Neck road which requires a bridge. It is below the Wingate farm, and is about |