PEPPERRELL.
After a painting, now owned by Mrs. Anna H. C. Howard, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and which has descended from Pepperrell. (Cf. Penna. Mag. of Hist., iii. p. 358.) This likeness, painted in London in 1751 by Smibert, is also engraved in Parsons’ Life of Pepperrell, in Drake’s Boston, and in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1866, where Dr. Parsons gives a genealogy of the Pepperrell family. There is in the Memorial Hist. of Boston (ii. 114) an engraving after an original full-length picture in the hall of the Essex Institute at Salem,—artist unknown. See also Higginson’s Larger History, p. 188.
A sword of Pepperrell is shown in the group of weapons engraved in Vol. III. p. 274. (Cf. Catal. Cab. Mass. Hist. Soc., p. 123; Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., v. 373; and Parsons’ Life of Pepperrell.) Views of the Pepperrell mansion at Kittery, where considerable state was kept, are given in Parsons (p. 329), and in a paper on Pepperrell by J. A. Stevens in the Mag. of Amer. History, vol. ii. 673. Cf. also Lamb’s Homes of America (1879), and Appleton’s Journal, xi. 65.
The earliest account of this mettlesome enterprise, which showed special research and opportunities, was that of Dr. Belknap in his History of New Hampshire, which was written in 1784, less than forty years after the event, and when he might have known some of the participants. The most important of the Pepperrell Papers had fallen into his hands, and he made good use of them, after which he deposited them in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society, where they now are, bound in two volumes, covering the years 1699-1779, but chiefly concerning the Louisbourg expedition.
PEPPERRELL ARMS.
This cut of the Pepperrell arms is copied from one in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., Nov., 1878, p. 684.