Any account of St. John's parish at Portsmouth which should neglect to state that the old Brattle organ, although not used in the church itself, is one of the corporation's most cherished possessions, would necessarily be incomplete. This "instrument " was purchased for the allied chapel in 1836 by Dr. Charles Burroughs, the first settled pastor of St. John's after the rebuilding of the church. It was originally the property of Mr. Thomas Brattle, one of the founders of the old Brattle Street Church in Boston. Mr. Brattle, who was an enthusiastic musician, imported the organ from London in 1713. At his death it was left by will to the Brattle Street Church given and devoted to the praise and glory of God in said church, if they shall accept thereof and within a year after my decease procure a sober person that can play skilfully thereon with a loud noise." The will further provided that the organ should go to King's Chapel if not accepted according to the first provision. The non-compliance of the Brattle Street Church with the condition of the gift would, therefore, seem to have been the gain of King's Chapel, and after remaining unpacked in the tower for some eight months, it was used there until 1756. Then it was sold to St. Paul's Church, in Newburyport, where it was in constant use for eighty years. In 1836, as has been said, it was purchased by Doctor Burroughs for St. John's Chapel, and it is still used in this edifice on State Street, Portsmouth. The case is new, but the old wind-chest and most of the pipes of the original organ remain, and some of the notes are even now of unusual sweetness. According to the "Annals of King's Chapel," this was "the first organ that ever pealed to the glory of God in this country." Yet even more interesting than the old church and its chapel on State Street is the parish burying-ground of St. John's. Here rest the remains of the highest and noblest men and women in New Hampshire's colonial annals. For all who served in public position or exercised authority by appointment or permission of the Crown felt in duty bound in those early days to worship at an English church. And from there they were buried. The Wentworths' tomb is in the centre of the yard, and here, linked with his governor's family in death as in life, repose to-day the remains of the Reverend Arthur Browne, who, in 1773, soon after the death of his aged wife, Mary, whom he had married in his native Drogheda when he was only her father's curate, cheerfully laid down his happy, wellspent life. COURTSHIP ACCORDING TO T SAMUEL SEWALL HERE is almost no story of early not connect with the Old South Meeting-House in Boston. The thing that perplexes is which to choose. For the building has been the scene of many great historical crises, during which affairs have been guided by some of the foremost men in the annals of our country. Its site is also famous as that of the home of Governor John Winthrop, and it was here that the governor died March 26, 1649. Subsequent to this event the land was owned by Madam Mary Norton (wife of |