The starving troops eventually make it safely to the planned meeting point, Fort Wentworth on the Connecticut River, where reinforcements and supplies were supposed to be waiting for them.

Once consisting of several large land grants by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, the town was first named New Madbury, after the seacoast town of Madbury.

First settled in 1763, Northwood was incorporated on February 6, 1773 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, when a large tract of land called " North Woods " was separated from Nottingham.

Motto: " Mea Gloria Fides " (" Trust is My Renown "), which is displayed in large Roman capitals on the frieze of the classical pediment of Wentworth Woodhouse

Motto: " Mea Gloria Fides " (" Trust is My Renown "), which is displayed in large Roman capitals on the frieze of the classical pediment of Wentworth Woodhouse.

The marriage was the subject of considerable scandal at the time, and also the subject of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “ Lady Wentworth .” His second wife was the sole heir of his large property.

Many of the village's houses are large detached homes situated on the private Wentworth Estate home of the famous Wentworth Club which has four golf courses.

* Duel — Shortly before his death, Wentworth is overtaken by a large freighter truck in a manner similar to David Mann's first encounter with the tanker in Spielberg's film.

When Lord Wentworth died, a few months after Anne Isabella's marriage to Lord Byron, her father, who inherited a large part of the estate, changed his name to Sir Ralph Noel.

Towards the southern end of Birdwell stands a large obelisk which was constructed in 1775 ( according to the plaque ) to mark the distance ( 3 miles ) to Wentworth Castle ( at nearby Stainborough ).

By the time of his death Wentworth had accumulated 543. 2 km² of land and had built a large family home.

The 1922 redistribution increased the number of voters in some rural electorates and as a result the division of Barrier was abolished with most of its population, including the large mining town of Broken Hill, Wentworth and Balranald, was absorbed by Darling along with Hay from Riverina.

It has a large shopping centre, Westfield Eastgardens at the corner of Wentworth Avenue and Bunnerong Road.

The grain size of a rock is usually expressed with the Wentworth scale, though alternative scales are used sometimes.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

* Wentworth scale, a scale for the Particle size ( grain size ) of granular materials

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

Many of these grants were sold at relatively low prices to land speculators, with some land kicked back to Wentworth.

New York, which had also issued land grants that overlapped some of those sold by Wentworth, insisted that holders of the Wentworth grants pay a fee to New York to have their grants validated.

Between May 1770, when he first began working on the defense, and the trial in July, he acquired, for the price of $ 50, grants from Wentworth to about of land in Poultney and Castleton.

These included denying surveyors sent by the province the ability to survey any land in the Grants, not just land owned through the Wentworth grants.

In 1764, Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth granted to a group of approximately 70 land investors from Connecticut.

Edward VI passed the land to the Wentworth family, and thence to their descendants, the Earls of Cleveland.

In 1749, the land was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, and he renamed it Effingham for the Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham and who were related to the Wentworths by marriage.

Chartered in 1763 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the land was considered so inaccessible that the grant was enlarged, making Sandwich one of the largest towns in the state.

The town would be incorporated in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth as Rindge, in honor of Captain Daniel Rindge of Portsmouth, one of the original grant holders, and the one who represented New Hampshire's claim to the land before the king.

The land was sold in 1797 to George Wentworth of Portsmouth and operated as an unorganized ' plantation ' from 1797 – 1881 ; town was incorporated, 1881 – 1966, then became an organized ' township '.

Chartered in 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named after the hometown of many early settlers, Canaan, Connecticut, which had been named for the biblical land of Canaan.

In that same year, Wentworth also granted to one Colonel John Hurd ( of Portsmouth part of the land which is today within the bounds of Monroe.

Since Wentworth had granted to settlers land that the Province of New York also claimed, legal and physical conflicts broke out between " Yorkers " and settlers in the New Hampshire Grants ( or " The Grants ").

People moving into the territory, then known as New Connecticut or the New Hampshire Grants, generally settled after purchasing land grants from New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth.

When the British government resolved the dispute in New York's favor, the colonial government attempted to assert control over the grants and force residents who had purchased land grants from Wentworth to pay a fee and confirm their titles.

The charter was issued by the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, and stated that each " proprietor, settler or inhabitant " should pay one ear of Indian corn for each acre of land, and after ten years, one shilling for each 100 acres.

With a pretty New England common set atop an elevated tongue of land, the village has been noted since the 19th-century for its charm ; while in "... beauties of landscape, Wentworth has a more than ordinary share.

John Wentworth ( nicknamed " Long John ") ( March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888 ) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

Fyodor Martens and other diplomats from both nations stayed in New Castle, New Hampshire at the Hotel Wentworth ( where the armistice was signed ), and were ferried across the Piscataqua River for negotiations held on the base located in Kittery, Maine.

* two State Dinners hosted by the Governor of New Hampshire and a Mayor's Tea Reception for Portsmouth's Sister Cities of Nichinan, Japan and Severodvinsk, Russia, all at the Wentworth by the Sea hotel, which provided accommodations for both the Japanese and Russian delegations in 1905 for 30 days, at no charge

When President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War, envoys from both countries stayed at the Wentworth by the Sea, ferried by launch to negotiations held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Grants in the area were given by both the early Massachusetts government and by Governor Benning Wentworth, which led to disputes.

Maritime, a NSW Government instrumentality, owns most of the land on Wentworth Point north of Burroway Road on both sides of Hill Road.

Scotland ’ s Society is actually the oldest as Walter Spencer is recorded as having been initiated into the SRIS by Anthony Oneil Haye in 1857, and there are documents in the SRIA archives that show that both Robert Wentworth Little and William J. Hughan were initiated in 1866 and 1867 by Anthony O ’ Neal Haye, Magus Max, Ros.

Although Wentworth was successful in keeping New Hampshire from implementing harsh boycotts in response to the Townshend Acts, he was clearly troubled by both colonial resistance to Parliamentary acts and by the introduction of troops into Boston in 1768.

Lord Lytton and Lady Wentworth were both succeeded by their son, the fourth Earl and sixteenth Baron.

Her uncle had been both Viscount and Baron Wentworth, which titles were inherited differently: the viscountcy became extinct, and the barony fell into abeyance between her mother and her cousin Nathaniel Curzon, 3rd Baron Scarsdale.

By that time, the annual football game with rival Wentworth Military Academy and College in Lexington, Missouri had become a huge event on Thanksgiving, with both corps of cadets boarding trains and sometimes meeting on a neutral field in Sedalia or Marshall, Missouri.

With the choir disbanded and the cathedral closed, Tomkins turned his genius to the composition of some of his finest keyboard and consort music ; in 1647, he wrote a belated tombeau or tribute to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, and a further one to the memory of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, both beheaded in 1641, and both admired by Tomkins.

There is a monument in Wentworth on the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers in Australia commemorating the time in 1956 when both rivers flooded and a fleet of little grey Fergies was used to build levee banks to save the town.

* Allegations of branch-stacking relating to the federal seat of Division of Wentworth within the Liberal Party's New South Wales division were published in 2006 by John Hyde Page, who both detailed his own role in the process and made allegations about numerous Liberal members and figures.

* There is a monument in Wentworth on the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers in Australia commemorating the time in 1956 when both rivers flooded and a fleet of little grey Fergies was used to build levee banks to save the town.

Founded in 1841 by the horticulturalists Joseph Paxton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Lindley and William Bradbury it originally took the form of a traditional newspaper, with both national and foreign news, but also with vast amounts of material sent in by gardeners and scientists, covering every conceivable aspect of gardening.

This road leaves Route 16, travels east to meet both the southern and northern termini of New Hampshire Route 16B ( separated by merely 500 feet ) and returns to Route 16, passing through the Wentworth Golf Club.

In February 1587, Sir Anthony Cope ( 1548 – 1614 ) presented to the Speaker a bill abrogating the existing ecclesiastical law, together with a Puritan revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and Wentworth supported him by bringing forward certain articles touching the liberties of the House of Commons ; Cope and Wentworth were both committed to the Tower for interference with Elizabeth I's ecclesiastical prerogative.

The position of both Paul and Peter Wentworth has been exaggerated.