History of Stratham, (Rockingham County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Paine Wingate, delegate and senator, was born in Amesbury, Mass., May 14, 1739; son of the Rev. Paine (1703-1786) and Mary (Balch) Wingate; grandson of Col. Joshua (1679-1769), a soldier in the French and Indian war, wire took part in the capture of Louisburg, and of his wife, Mary (Lunt) Wingate; great-grandson of John Wingate (1636-1687) of Dover, N.H.. the first of the Wingates in America, who landed there before 1658, and a descendant of John Balch, of Beverly, Mass. (1630). Paine Wingate was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1759, A.M., 1760; was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Dec. 14, 1763. He was married, May 23, 1765, to Eunice, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Wingate Pickering, of Salem, Mass., and sister of Col. Timothy Pickering of Washington's cabinet. He was pastor at Hampton Fails, N.H., 1763-76; engaged in farming at Stratham, N.H.; was a delegate to the Continental congress, held at New York city, 1787-88, and was elected one of the two first U.S. senators from New Hampshire in 1789, drawing the short term expiring March 3, 1793. He was a representative from New Hampshire in the 3d congress, 1793-95, and judge of the state superior court, 1798-1809. At the time of his death he was the oldest survivor of Harvard college graduates, of the U.S. senate, of the U.S. house of representatives, and of all except one of the New Hampshire courts. He was then 98 years, 9 months old, his wife lived to the age of 100 years, 8 months. He died at Stratham, N.H., March 7, 1838.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John F. Adams, clergyman, was born at Stratham, N. H., May 23, 1790. At the age of twenty-two he received a preacher's license from the New England Methodist Conference and went to Maine, where he won distinction as an earnest and effective preacher. It is said that "his appointments were sometimes fifty miles apart, and to keep them he often rode through rain and snow all day without food, and all night with no other bed than the back of his horse." He was appointed presiding elder of Boston, Lynn and other Massachusetts districts, and was a prominent abolitionist. He was four times delegate to general conference. He died June 11, 1881.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Daniel Clark, senator, was born in Stratham, N. H., Jan. 2, 1801; son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wiggin) Clark. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in 1837, practising his profession at Manchester, N. H. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1842, in 1843, in 1846, in 1854 and in 1855; a U.S. senator 1857-66, being president pro tempore of the senate during part of two sessions. After the close of his term in 1866 he was appointed United States district judge for New Hampshire. He was president of the New Hampshire constitutional convention which met in 1876. He was married June 9, 1840, to Hannah W., daughter of Maxcy Robbins of Stratham, N. H. She died in 1844, and in 1846 he was married to Ann W., daughter of Henry Salter of Portsmouth, N. H., and had two sons, one of whom, Henry S. Clark, became a lawyer in New York City. Dartmouth college conferred upon Judge Clark the degree of LL. D. in 1866. He died at Manchester, N. H, Jan. 2, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor