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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