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FRESH STUFF DAILY Seacoast New Hampshire & South Coast Maine TODAY TOPICS HISTORY SEACOASTNH April 2008 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Free Delivery     John Simes Family Tree John Simes Family Tree Written by Charles W Brewster    BREWSTER’S RAMBLES #137 Unless your name Is Simes, this one is not for you. Brewster rambles on about the genealogy of a family that once owned land on Market Street in Portsmouth, NH. John Simes arrived from England about 1736.     RAMBLE CXXXVII. John Simes and his Descendants. ON the lot of land on Market street now occupied by the stores of C. H. Mendum & Co. and Hill & Carr, in the last century stood an old fashioned gambrel-roofed house, with a shop on the street, and in which was done as much of the dry goods trade as in any other store around it. The house was built by Mr. John Simes, the first of the name among us, who came from England about 1736, and located on this spot. His land extended west to High street. A deed dated in 1760 conveys to two of his grandchildren, Elizabeth Hart (afterwards the wife of Rev. Dr. McClintock, ) and Mary Parker, (widow of Capt. William Parker,...