Jonathan Gove, born in Hampton, N. H., May 2, 1695. He was a member of a scouting party of soldiers under the command of Captain Green in the French War, in 1712.
He was a Quaker, and lived in Hampton Falls, on the old homestead in the house built by his father in 1713. He was selectman, surveyor of highways, assessor and constable of the town. In 1726-7, the town taxed him for one poll, one house, fifteen acres of cultivated land, two oxen, four cows and two hogs.
Mr. Gove married, first, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Green) Lancaster, who was of the Society of Friends, July 21, 1720. She was born June i, 1701 ; and died about 1725. He married, second, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Deliverance (Heath) Worthen of Haverhill, Mass., March 23, 1729-30, at Hampton Falls. She was born in that part of Haverhill, Mass., which is now Plaistow, N. H., Feb. 14, 1710-1. Mr. Gove died at Hampton Aug. 16, 1761, aged sixty-six; and was buried in the old graveyard at Seabrook village. She married, secondly, Abner Philbrick Dec. 4, 1777; and died at Seabrook Dec. 9, 1801, aged ninety.
