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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

78 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
thither their coach inight frequently be seen going in the
summer season. It afterwards became the property of her
nephew Col. George K. Spathawk- although by the
will it appears to have been given to his brother John
Sparhawk.
gAMBLE XCIII.
Petei'e Livius the Loyalist — Buildinlg of the North Bridge
and Mill-Chief Justice of Qulebe.c —His efforts to win
Gen. Sullivan to the British Cause.
OUR old town Wtas noted in the Revolution as a place of
Loyalists, or Tories as they were called, as well as for her
Revolutionary Patriots. At the close of the Revolution,
Portsmouth came in for its share of proscribed individuals,
twh had left the country to' avoid any participation in the
Revolution. They were forbidden to return without the
assent of the representatives of thd country. Among
these individuals was Peter Livius, the subject of our
present Ramble.
PETER LIVIUS Wias borii in Bedford, England, in 1721. He
was the second son of Peter Leiis Livius, of a Saxon
family of distinction, envoy to the Court of Lisbon. Peter
Livius was married in England to Anna Elizabeth, second
daughter of John Tufton Mason, Esq., a cousin of the Earl
of Thanet. Miss Mason was of Portsmouth, a resident at
the Mason House, now on Vaughan street, and had gone to
England to complete her education. Mr. Livius possessed
a handsome fortune, and when he came to this town, about
the year 1762, he ijot olly brolght his coaoh, but also a
double set of wheels-:stipposhig' that the new world had
not art enough to make a set when the first gave out. He
first occupied the house next to the North Mill which the