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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

RESIDENCE OF RICHARD CUTTS. 147
it came the sister of the Governor of Massachusetts
as a bride,-and from it, in a year, the imposing ceremonies of her funeral were displayed. From 1715 to
1717 this house was the residence of the Governor of the
State. Here, in 1703, was born William Vaughan, the
projector of the Louisburg expedition, which shed a
lustre upon American history. That old house should
have been daguerreotyped before it passed away.
VAMBLE CVII.
tesidenlce Of Richard Cutts - Capt. Thollas l:Bigh's'
Sea Acdventure -'WTilliaml Beiieett, the Iostage -
His fat&,
IN our last, reference WVas made to the old house recently
taken down at the corner of Market and Deer streets, the
former residence of Liertt. Gov. George Vaughan. A
building on the north, bounded on Market street, was an
tid bake house; and a brewery, as early as 1790, wa(s
south-west of the house, on the opposite side of the street.
The house where the late George Long for many years
resided, was built by Samuel Hart, (father of the late Rich.
ard,) more than a century ago, on what was then called the
" Malt House Lot." The localities are so nearly like
those referred to in the Will of the first Richard Cutt
[Ramble 5th,] that there seems a probability that the old
house, demolished about eight years since, was his resi{
dence in 1675, when he made his Will, —and that George
Vaiughan, his grandson, inherited it from him. If so, President John and his brother Richard lived in the immediate
neighborhood of each other.
Elizabeth, a daughter of Gov. George Vaughan, married