The bride he brought back to Portsmouth was Grace Fletcher, daughter of the minister of Hopkinton.

Mr.Webster is said to have seen her first at church in Salisbury, whither she came on horseback in a tight-fitting black velvet dress, and looking, as he said, "like an angel." She was certainly a very lovely and charming woman, of delicate and refined sensibilities and bright and sympathetic mind.

She was a devoted wife, the object of her husband's first and strongest love, and the mother of his children.

It is very pleasant to look at Mr.Webster in his home during these early years of his married life.

It was a happy, innocent, untroubled time.