Standing prominently in the center of Exeter's downtown is a majestic white New England church. Its congregation can trace its roots back to the original settlement of the town in 1638, indeed the ...

Antinomian minister John Wheelwright is credited for founding the town of Wells, and his grant from Sir Ferdinando Gorges did designate the land from the Ogunquit River to the Kennebunk River for his ...

When John Wheelwright arrived in Exeter in 1638, he gathered together a few local frontiersmen and drafted a legal deed to the land. The Squamscott Tribe, led by their sagamore, Wehenownowit, occupied ...

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 8, [Vol. 28 of continuous numbering] (1892 - 1894), pp. 503-562 (61 pages) ...

Massachusetts Historical Records Survey, "American Portraits. Found in Massachusetts 1620-1825, Vol.ii" Boston, 1939. Coll.catalog "Portraits in Essex Institute ...

POLITICAL SELF-PORTRAIT—John Wheelwright—Bruce Humphries ($2.50). “AND I WILL BE HEARD”—John Beecher—Privately Printed. THE TOMB OF THOMAS JEFFERSON—Lawrence Lee—Scribner ($ 1.50). A deep-bitten ...