Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

110 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
passionate. They first went to housekeeping in the mansion on the corner of Hanover and Vaughan streets,
afterwards occupied by Col. Supply Clapp, and now by
the heirs of John Hill. Capt. C. removed into a house on
the opposite side of the street, afterwards owned by Capt.
George F. Blunt, on the spot where Samuel Cleaves' house
now stands. In 1780 he lived in a house on Deer street,
near where the Concord Depot now is. He still followed
the sea;-but his prize money, like that of many others,
went as easily as it came, and in 1784 he was again reduced
to comparative poverty-paying only a poll tax. He died
in some foreign port about the year 1785. By his second
wife he had several children, all of whom died in childhood.
Amy, the daughter of the first wife, received from her
stepmother rather cruel treatment. So apparent was it,
that the friends of the child interposed in her behalf, and
she was placed in the family of Mr. Daniel Ri-dge, who
occupied a house on the corner of Market and Daniel
streets. She became the companion and assistant of fMrs.
R. and received the education of a daughter. It was here
that the estimable merchant whose shop was in close proximity to the house on the north, first became acquainted
with her-and no less fascinating were her attractions by
seeing her, like Rebecca, bringing water from that well,
which is now on the premises of S. H. Simes & Co. It
was a remark one of our reverend doctors of divinity
used to make, that while he had highly estimable daughters in his son's wives-there was none he loved better
than Amy.