"Richard Waldron was born in the year 1694; he was the son of Col. Richard Waldron, who succeeded John Cutt as President of New Hampshire. When an infant, he narrowly escaped death by the hands of the Indians, together with his father and mother; a mere accident having prevented their visiting Madam Ursula Cutt on the day of the massacre. He fixed his residence at first on the ancestral estate at Dover, but afterwards removed to Portsmouth, and lived at the Plains. In 1728 he was appointed Councillor, and soon afterwards Secretary of the province. In 1745 his house at the Plains burnt down, the public records being lost in the conflagration; after which time he resided in this house, which was built in the best style of those times. He dies in 1753. The house afterwards passed into the possession of the Moffatt family."

Excerpted from The Portsmouth Guide Book, 1896, by Sarah Haven Foster.

Inscription reads, "Secretary Waldron's House. 1740. Peverly Hill Road."