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��The Residence of Counsellor Peter Livius.

��attained a national popularity, is C. "Carleton" Coffin, a native of Bos- cawen, better known as the war cor- respondent of the Boston JournaU who has issued a book of European travels, "Caleb Krinkle," a novel, a volume of war reminiscences, and a Life of Gen. Garfield ; is P. P>. Shil- laber, better known as Mrs. Parting-, ton, a native of Portsmouth, who is the best humorist of which this state can boast, and who is a poet of re- spectable dimensions ; is S. Adam Drake, better known as a genealogist, a native of Pittsfield, but whose "Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast" has had a very gen- eral circulation.

The former two gentlemen reside in suburban Boston ; the latter is de- ceased. Mrs. Partinoton's humor is

��of that peculiar kind which has had no imitators. Previous to the ap- pearance of the Bailey-Burdette school she was confessedly at the head of American mirth-provokers. Her " Partingtonian Patchwork" consists of the following truly laughable sketches : Blifkins the Martyr, or The Domestic Trials of a Model Husband ; The Modern Syntax ; Dr. Spooner's Experiences in Search of the Delec- table ; Partingtonian Papers ; Strip- pings of the Warm Milk of Human Kindness ; New and Old Things from an Unpretending Inkstand.

Doubtless there are many more names that would deserve to be cata- logued in a ' list of Granite State authors, but the scope of this article is far from comprising a bibliography of the state.

��THE RESIDENCE OF COUNSELLOR PETER LIVIUS AT TUF-

TONBOROUGH.

By John Wentworth, LL. D.

��In the first edition of Belknap's History of New Hampshire, three volumes, imieh is said of Counsellor Peter Livius. See Vol. IH for the trial of Gov. John Wentworth in Lon- don upon cliarges preferred by him. He was appointed counsellor in 1765. He married Ann Pvlizabeth, daughter of John Tufton Mason, and named the township of which he was princi- pal proprietor, and where he made his home, Tuftonhorough. He left the state in April, 1772, and did not return. He was named in the New Hampshire act of 1778, "To prevent the return of certain persons to this state wlio have left it and joined with

��the enemies thereof." He was chief- justice of Canada from 1777 to 1786, living at Quebec. He died in Eng- land, July 23, 1795, aged sixty-eight. I had my curiosity excited as to the residence of Judge Livius from the letter of Lady Frances Went- worth, from Wolfeborough, dated Wentworth House, October 4, 1770, to her relative, the wife of Hon. Woodbury Langdou, of Portsmouth, which was published in the Gkanite Monthly, December, 1881. The Wentworth House was upon the old route from Portsmouth (forty-nine miles distant) to Montreal, yjaNewing- ton, Rochester, and Middletou. Hon.

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