From The Gove Book by William Henry Gove, page 64 and 82/83, Richard Gove was the son of Jonathan Gove and his second wife Hannah (nee Worthen) Gove ( Philbrick). He was born 20 Jan 1748/49 in Hampton Falls, NH before it became part of Seabrook, NH. He married Dorothy Dow, the daughter of Winthrop and Elizabeth Dow of Seabrook 11 October 1769. Richard and Dorothy were of The Society of Friends and lived on the land purchased by Edward Gove, the Patriot, in Seabrook (originally in Hampton Falls until the town dividing lines were changed) in the house built by Edward's son John Gove in 1713.
Bio by Bonnie Kehoe-Gove

The following relates to Mr. William Henry Gove who purchased the Gove Homestead in 1897 and was transcribed from the Gove Book( which he compiled) by find a Grave member BeNotForgot:
From The Gove Book [1922] . . . The purchaser improved the old house and lived here, as his summer home, until the house was burned by an unknown incendiary Oct. 1, 1913, when it was two centuries old. At the same time an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the barn, which stood near the house. Mr. W.H. Gove erected a summer home near the old site and lived there more or less during each summer until his decease in 1920. He filled the old cellar, and purposed to mark its site by a granite monument, surmounted with a sundial. He prepared the details for the same, and the inscriptions to be cut upon it, but did not live to erect it. Mrs. Gove (i.e. Aroline Pinkham Gove) has sought to complete all his contemplated works and immediately after his decease in the autumn of 1920, caused a monument to be wrought and set up, with a bronze sundial on its top and inscriptions upon its four sides. The monument is four feet high and twenty-eight inches square at the base and twenty inches at the top. The inscription on the east side, toward the street, is as follows: (see third photo)
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 of the estate from 1713 to 1920, with the dates of each one's period of ownership, as follows:
JOHN GOVE (SON OF EDWARD)
1713-1737
JONATHAN GOVE
1737-1761
RICHARD GOVE
1761-1832
RICHARD GOVE
1832-1847
JONATHAN GOVE
1847-1890
SARAH ELMA GOVE
1890-1897
WILLIAM HENRY GOVE
1897-1920
The west side is inscribed in Latin and states that this was Edward Gove's homefield from 1665, as follows:
EDVARDI GOVI
AGER
MDCLXV
[Recent additions to the west side include the following three owners . . .
WILLIAM PINKHAM GOVE
1920-1925
KARL JOHN EDWARD GOVE
1925-1987
JEAN K. GOVE
1987-2004
Mr. W.H. Gove was interested in Esperanto, the world language which was produced a score of years ago, and wrote the inscription for the north side of the monument in that language, as follows:
TIU CI MONTRAS
LA HELAJU
HOROJU KIE
DUM DUCENT
JAROJ ESTIS
LA FAJRUJO
DE LA FAMILIO
DE GOVE
In English, this inscription reads as follows: "This marks the sunny hours where for two hundred years was the hearthstone of the Gove family."
. . . . . . . . . .
Fire Friday morning of unknown origin destroyed the fine old house, at Seabrook, built in 1713 by one of the sons of Edward Gove, who for the instigation of Gove's rebellion in 1688 was convicted of treason and three years imprisoned in the Tower of London. The house, which was in good preservation, had always been owned and occupied as a summer home by William H. Gove of Salem, Mass. . . . The Portsmouth Herald, October 25th, 1913
.**************************************************************************************************