Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution. He was later also Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He is buried in the cry
Wentworth by Robert Field, (Government House (Nova Scotia))
Wentworth by John Singleton Copley
The Wentworth House was built by Mark Hunking Wentworth, and occupied by his son, Gov. John Wentworth, until he left New Hampshire after a cannon was pointed at the front door by revolutionaries
Frances Wentworth, by John Singleton Copley, 1765. At the time of this painting, she was Mrs. Theodore Atkinson.
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
Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet
…Province of New Hampshire, and he was a grandson of John Wentworth, who served as the province's lieutenant governor in the 1720s, a nephew to Governor Benning Wentworth, and a descendant of "Elder" William Wentworth. His father Mark was a major landowner and merchant in the province, and his mother, Elizabeth Rindge…
Portrait by Joseph Blackburn, 1760
Theodore Atkinson, a major political ally of Wentworth
A Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Wentworth on November 9, 1763