Keywords: Wadsworth, Peleg
Item 7478
John Campbell to Henry Clinton about capture of Peleg Wadsworth, 1781
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781-03-15 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper
Item 9963
Peleg Wadsworth letter to wife, Betsey, 1778
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-09-02 Media: Ink on paper
![Peleg Wadsworth to wife, Feb. 19, [1781]](https://media.mainememory.net/images/640/75/10801.JPG)
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Lock of George Washington's Hair
Correspondence between Elizabeth Wadsworth, her father Peleg Wadsworth and Martha Washington's secretary about the gift of a lock of George Washington's hair to Eliza.
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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement
"… new capital in Maine.[15] In October 1793, Peleg Wadsworth, grandfather of the noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, put forth an effort to place…"
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - People of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House
"… the house – the family of Elizabeth Bartlett and Peleg Wadsworth who lived here between 1785 and 1807, and the family of Zilpah Wadsworth and…"
