The Gove book; history and genealogy of the American family of Gove, and notes of European Goves . 1967) of Salem, Mass., in purchaser improved the old house and lived here,as his summer home, until the house was burned by an un-known incendiary Oct. i, 1913, when it was two cen-turies old. At the same time an unsuccessful attempt was madeto burn the barn, which stood near the house. Mr. Gove erecteda summer home near the old site; and lived there more or lessduring each summer until his decease in 1920. He filled the oldcellar, and purposed to mark its site by a granite monument, sur
The Gove book; history and genealogy of the American family of Gove, and notes of European Goves . 1967) of Salem, Mass., in purchaser improved the old house and lived here,as his summer home, until the house was burned by an un-known incendiary Oct. i, 1913, when it was two cen-turies old. At the same time an unsuccessful attempt was madeto burn the barn, which stood near the house. Mr. Gove erecteda summer home near the old site; and lived there more or lessduring each summer until his decease in 1920. He filled the oldcellar, and purposed to mark its site by a granite monument, sur-mounted with a sundial. He prepared the details for the same,and the inscriptions to be cut upon it, but did not live to erect Gove has sought to complete all his contemplated works,and immediately after his decease, in the autumn of 1920, causeda monument to be wrought and set up, with a bronze sundial onits top and inscriptions upon its four sides. The monument isfour feet high and twenty-eight inches square at the base and ^ Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, volume II, page UJ > 00 zI0 -) IL 0u 20 I THE GOVE BOOK 55 twenty inches at the top. The inscription on the east side, towardthe street, is as follows: HERE STOOD THE HOUSE BUILT IN 1713 BY JOHN GOVE BURNED IN 1913 BY AN INCENDIARY On the south side the inscription is a list of the owners ofthe estate from 1713 to 1920, with the dates of each ones periodof ownership, as follows: JOHN GOVE(SON OF EDWARD) 1713-1737 JONATHAN GOVE 1737-1761 RICHARD GOVE 1761-1832 RICHARD GOVE I832-I847 JONATHAN GOVE 1847-1890 SARAH ELMA GOVE 1890-1897 WILLIAM HENRY GOVE I897-I920 The west side is inscribed in Latin and states that this wasEdward Goves homefield from 1665, as follows: EDVARDI GOVI ACER MDCLXV Mr. Gove was interested in Esperanto, the world languagewhich was produced a score of years ago, and wrote the inscrip-tion for the north side of the monument in that language, as fol-lows: 56 THE GOVE BOOK TIU CI MON
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