Benning Wentworth
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Benning Wentworth was an American merchant, landowner and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766. He is best known for issuing a series of land grants bet
Portrait by Joseph Blackburn, 1760
Theodore Atkinson, a major political ally of Wentworth
A Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Wentworth on November 9, 1763
John Wentworth was an American sea captain, merchant, politician, judge and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of New Hampshire from 1717 to 1730.
Benning Wentworth
…territory disputed with the Province of New York. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire into a prominent local family, Wentworth was groomed by his father John to take over the family business before Wentworth's misbehavior at Harvard College led him to be sent by his father to Boston to undergo an apprenticeship…
Lieut Governor John Wentworth Province of New Hampshire
The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased the Wentworth house in 1926, and moved portions of the interior to the museum. The house was unusually grand in scale, and the spiral-turned balusters are the earliest known in New England.
Interior of the John Wentworth house, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.