PEVERLY HILL Poem by Elain Peverly

PEVERLY HILL
                     by Elaine Peverly

From Sagamore Creek to Peverly Hill
Thomas Peverly settled this land early on.
A house he built quite near the Creek,
And with Jane Walford settled down


Along with many of his countrymen.
He had been sent by Capt. Mason,
To settle here in Portsmouth,
From far off England, to this nation.


He settled on this land, a hill,
Looking all around this town,
And it became known as Peverly Hill,
And was a location well known.

 

 


Now through the years
he served his town
Surveying land around,
And reared his children
to be good
And abide by tenets
sound.


So from those early years till now,
This location we still find,
A bit of Portsmouth's history
That helps us to unwind -


The people from those early years,
Who helped to build this town,
They settled there near creek and hill
And called this Portsmouth town.


Back in the sixteen hundreds
It was the first highway
Between Rye and Portsmouth,
In the horse and carriage days,


There were no wide paved roads,
No bridges to cross the creek
Just up south road and through the Plains
To Peverly Hill Road each week,


And so through all the many years
Peverly Hill became well known,
And even in this new millennium
Peverly Hill is easily found.


And even today in nearby towns,
Some Peverlys still reside,
Though in intervening years
In other states they did abide,


And sometimes as they drive along the hill,
Or by that Sagamore Creek
They sometimes think of those earlier folk
And wish that they could speak,


And tell about those days long gone,
When few men lived around,
Those men who gave their all back then
To this special Portsmouth town.

 

 

 

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