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in 1667. and mention is made of the brew-house on the point northwest of this place at the same date. Again the northwest part of Kittery Point is called "Brew-House Point" in 1712, when it was bought by William Pepperrell of Elisha Hutchinson.
It is fortunate that a plan of Kittery Point has been pre- served, which locates its inhabitants at a later date. In 1849 Mr. Pelatiah Fernald made a plan accompanied by a written descrip- tion of the dwellers at the Point and onward to the York line in
THE GERRISH HOUSE.
1775 and 1848. From his plan the following facts have been taken for the most part. North of the road after crossing the bridge at Spruce Creek lived in 1775 Edmund Stevens, a tailor, "the great-grandfather of Polly Chambers," as Mr. Fernall tells. Hle married Lydia Holbrook 8 March 1764. East of him and where Charles Duncan afterward lived stood the house of Joseph Vincent. It was taken down and carried to Salem. Mass. Up the real further and on the north side lived Mr. Snellings, a
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baker. On the right hand or south side of the road and near the Creek was Tobias Walker, and a few rods south of him was Josiah Berry, a caulker, doubtless son of George Berry who mar- ried Deliverance Haley and bought two acres here, on which his house was then standing, 21 May 1712. His daughter, Deborah, married William Walker about 1723, and hence the proximity of the Walker family in 1775. William Walker bought of John Hix (or Hicks) 23 May 1739, land at Kittery Point where Hix
SPARHAWK MANSION.
formerly lived. A few rods south of Berry was Elihu Weeks, a carpenter. South of Weeks, where the heirs of Robert F. Ger- rish now live, was Samuel Smallcorn, and east of him was Capt. William Pillow. The last two houses are still standing, and that of the Gerrish heirs is a storehouse of old furniture and heir- looms of many families and generations, a visit to which will well repay the lover of the antique. Passing up the lane to the corner one would see in 1775, near the Gunnison burial place, the resi- dence of Joshua White, a cooper. and near by a store belonging to Capt. Joseph Cutts, which was burned. White bought of John Hix. 26 May 1735. White's house disappeared long ago. North of White's stood and still stands the mansion erected for
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the widow of Sir William Pepperrell, now owned and occupied by J. Chester Cutts.
The present church and parsonage were built about 1729 and will be spoken of in the chapter on Ecclesiastical History. Beyond the church, on the south side of the street lived a Mr. Buckley, where William Tobey lived in 1848. Nearly opposite a lane runs north to the mansion, built in 1742, of Col. Nathaniel Sparhawk, son-in-law of Sir William Pepperrell. It is still standing and well preserved. In 1848 it was occupied by Roger Deering, and has lately been purchased by Hon. Horace Mitchell.
We will let Mr. Fernald tell the story for Warehouse Point in his own words. "Where Mr. Daniel Billings' house stands Mr. James Hickey occupied a small house belonging to Sir William. He was a rock blower. Next was Silas Darby. His house and land were mortgaged to Sir William, now owned by Asa Frisbee. South of Capt. Frisbee's was E. Greenough. Where Capt. J. Lawry lives was Capt. Robert Oram. Next was Capt. Robert Follet, the father of Mercy Follet now living. Next was Capt. Joshua Moore. Next on Holbrook Point was William Holbrook. Next was Cicero, a colored man. Next was Col. Sparhawk's red store and wharf, destroyed. Coming round into the cove was William Whitmore, a goldsmith. A few rods north was Mr. Allen's."
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THE CHAMPERNOWNE.
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Spruce Creek
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It must be pretty nearly the site of E. Greenough's house that is now occupied by "The Champernowne." This favorite summer resort was built in 1890 and enlarged in 1897 by Hon. Horace Mitchell, the present proprietor and manager. The accompanying engraving leaves nothing more to be said about the exterior and its surroundings. Within will be found rest, comfort, health and pleasant associations. All the old land- marks of Kittery Point are within a short walk of this hotel.
Mr. Fernald's description of the Pepperrell Mansion will be found in another chapter. In 1775 Capt. John Underwood was living in the Bray house, and next east of him was Dr. Nathaniel Todd. Then came in order on the same side of the street Capt. William Moore, widow Margaret ( Deering ) Cleare, Roger Deering, Jr .. William Deering and Roger Mitchell. Opposite Capt. William Deering was John Deering. The house was built for his grandmother, Joan ( Bray ) Deering about the year 1700. It is still in good condition. East of this lived Richard
Mitchell and widow Mary Ball.
Mr. Fernald's plan takes us on further. Where the Spruce Creek road comes in at right angles with the road to York and on the north side of the latter stood. in 1775. a large tavern kept by James Caswell. Beyond him and on the same side of the - road lived Furber Allen and next was Joseph Fitzgerald. This brings us to Roger Deering, who lived a little back from the road and on a hill, where the original Deering house stood. On the south side of the road and about opposite to Deering lived Thomas Frizzell. Beyond Roger Deering on the north side of the road was Joseph Deering and next was Richard Seaward. A little beyond is Ten- ney's hill, where the Baptist meeting-house stood in 1807.
JOAN (BRAY) DEERING'S HOUSE, 1700.
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IV. A TRIP UP SPRUCE CREEK.
Sailing up Spruce Creek one would soon pass a cove on the east side, called in the early times Crockett's Cove or Creek according as it was viewed at high or at low tide. North of this was Crockett's Neck. When Thomas Crockett died this neck was divided among his sons and sons-in-law. Henry Barter. who married Crockett's granddaughter, had a portion of the Neck and added thereto in 1697, by buying twenty-seven acres or more of Thomas Hooper of York. Hooper's wife, who was Elizabeth Small, a servant of Francis Champernowne, received this in the will of Champernowne.
North of the neck is an inlet called in the old records some- times Crockett's Back Cove and sometimes Tucker's Cove. North of it Nicholas Tucker bought forty acres of Champer- nowne, 17 May 1686, "running from ye Stage point East." On Tucker's Creek was a saw-mill owned by Elihu Gunnison, Joseph Wilson, Henry .Barter and Andrew Haley. It is mentioned in a deed in 1708 and had then been long used. Tucker's house stood not far from the mill.
Adjoining Tucker's land on the north-east were the fifty acres of John Frink which he bought, 13 Oct. 1699, of Richard Bryer, whose wife had received it as an inheritance from Champernowne. In 1702 Frink sold twenty acres bordering on Tucker's land to William Brver. George Frink, probably brother to John, bought thirty-five acres of Elihu Gunnison, 9 May 1702. This was a little further north and bordered on land which Gunnison had sold to John Ingersoll.
North-west of John Frink's land lay the grant of three hundred acres made to Hugh Gunnison 16 Dec. 1652. It cor- responded pretty nearly to the land between what are now called the Norton and the Bartlett roads, extending down to Spruce Creek. Hugh never lived here, but his son Elihu settled here about 1675 and built a mill on Goose Creek. This is now a
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very small stream and is known as Wilson's Creek. It runs into what was called in 1652 and for many years thereafter Goose Cove. Here Gunnison's land began.
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GOOSE COVE, 1696. (Traced from the Town Records.)
It seems that Elihu Gunnison built vessels here. for he mentions in a deed in 1712 his "building yard." Sixty acres of the original grant were sold to Richard Endle 17 Dec. 1701. Ili- father. Richard, had lived here before him and died before 1695. In the deed special mention is made of "thirty foot square of land where ve sd Endles father and Mother were buried for a burying place for ve sd Endle and his family for ever ve same not to be plowed." Endle's farm was said to be
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at Briant's or Bryan's Point, so called for reasons unknown. Richard Endle, Sen., was a fisherman at the Isles of Shoals in 1661. He bought this land on Spruce Creek, 14 Oct. 1665, of Francis Morgan, who had married .the widow of Hugh Gunnison. Morgan had some claim to the land through this marriage, but it seems to have been an uncertain one, and so Richard Endle, Jr., took another deed of Elihu Gunnison. The name Endle has long been extinct in Kittery, but the descendants of Richard Endle are many in the Wilson and allied families. The farm of Endle eventually came into the possession of Gowen, son of Joseph Wilson.
In 1697 Elihu Gunnison sold to his brother-in-law. John Inger- soll, a portion of his land "near unto the Saw-Mill at goose Creek," "bounded by Kittery road on the North-west and on the northerly side by the lands of the sd Ingersoll:" also a piece of land by the water side. This Ingersoll was a son of George Ingersoll of Falmouth and had a grant of land in Kittery in 1671.
Next north of Richard Endle at "Briant's Point" we come to the homestead of Gowen Wilson. He signed the submission to Massachusetts in 1652 and received, 19 Jan. 1658, a grant of twenty-four acres on the east side of Spruce Creek and on the south-east side of Robert Mendum's lot. Twenty-one acres more were granted to him, 12 June 1673, lying between his own land and that of Richar 1 Endle and Goose Cove on the south- east. These two grants made a farm forty-five rods wide by one hundred and sixty rods long. His house, which was a garrison, stood near the junction of the Norton road with the road that runs up the east side of Spruce Creek.
Wilson gave. 2 June 1684. eleven acres of his lot. on the northerly side, as a marriage dowry to Andrew Haley, who had married his only daughter. Deborah. Haley had before this been a fisherman at the Isles of Shoals.
Next north is a tract of land which includes the "Ashen Swamp." It was granted by the town to Robert Mendum, 16 Dec. 1652, and extended to the head of Braveboat Harbor. One quarter part of this, or about eighty acres, was sold by Nathaniel, grandson of Robert Mendam. 14 April 1713. to Samuel Skillin formerly of Exeter. N. 11. The lot was "bounded on ve Northwest by Joseph Weeks his land & on ve Southeast by Andrew Haleys Land." Skillin had married Rhoda, sister
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of Andrew Haley. Jr. About the same time Skillin purchased of other heirs of Robert Mendum the rest of the original grant, except twenty-five acres sold to Joseph Weeks, 2 March 1672, and a lot to be occupied by John Fennick as long as he lived.
The lot of Joseph Weeks was "on the East side of spruce Creek beginning at Turky point, and from thence along by the water side to a great pine, and from thence Northeast unto an Ashen Swamp."
Adjoining Joseph Weeks on the north seems to have been the lot of Nicholas Weeks, sold to him by Jonathan Mendum 21 May 1681, for "two oxen &one Cow." It was on the East side of Spruce Creek, "beginning in at Martyns Cove at a stony brooke runneing up into the woods so fare as the sd Mendums Land runneth East & by North, & more over to runn from the sd Martins Cove by the water side unto John Phoenix his bounds. "1
We have now arrived at the head of Spruce Creek, whither Mendum's grant extended. On the east is "Pine Point" and just south of it is Martin's Cove. On the west side of the Creek is "Eagle Point." and the point to the north lying between the eastern and western branches of Spruce Creek is "Oak Point." In 1643 Gorges sold to Thomas Withers four hundred acres on the Pascataqua, which will be described later. About the same time he allowed Withers to choose four acres of meadow anywhere on Spruce Creek. March 20, 1644, Richard Vines as agent for Gorges sold to Withers for ten pounds "Six hundred ackers lieing and being at ve head of Spruce Crick at the marsh where the said Tho. Withers have formerly been possest of by Mr. Tho. Gorges and made use of, bounded with two other Creekes one on the Easter side and ye other on the West side." The four acres used by Withers were probably "Eagle Point Marsh." The town confirmed this sale to Withers, 24 May 1652. and added a grant of two hundred acres more. "one hundred Acers at Eagle point, on the west side of the Cricke. & the Cricke of Water It selfe, & one hundred acres at Martines Cove, on the East side of the sayd Cricke, & soc to goe up along on both sides the sayd Cricke. untill eight hundred acers of Land bee accomplished."> Alexander Jones,
.York Deeds, III .. 112. 2York Deeds II., 7.
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Scale one inch to a mile
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who was present when the deed was made, testified in 1666 that Withers' land on the east side began "at a Necke of Land called Pine Poynt," and on the west side "at ye Western Cricke that goeth in West at Eagle Poynt Marsh."
Withers sold, 4 April 1664, to John ffennicke twelve acres "Joyneing to a necke of Land Called pine poynt." It measured twenty-four rods on the water side and extended up into the woods eighty rods. There was a neck of land on the north side called the "burned neck." Fennick sold this lot to Peter Lewis 13 March 1670. A lot bordering this on the north, measuring forty-five rods on the water side by eighty rods into the woods was sold by Withers to John ffenicke, 10 April 1675, and the lat- ter sold this also to Peter Lewis, 12 April 1675. Lewis bought of Withers a strip "behind his lot," twenty by sixty-nine rods, 25 Nov. 1685. Fennick, or Phoenix, had a town grant of twenty acres. 18 Aug. 1679, which was laid out to him in parcels at sev- eral times. This land seems to have been southeast of the land sold to Peter Lewis at about the head of Martin's Cove and on the southeast side of the Cove. It bordered on land of Nicholas Weeks, on the parsonage land which included Pine Point, and on land of Enoch Hutchins, Sen. Phoenix bought, also, twelve acres of Jonathan Mendum in 1672. This probably adjoined his town grant on the south.
Enoch Hutchins bought of Thomas Withers, 7 July 1675. a tract of land "the one end facing upon Spruce Cricke, being twenty foure pooles in breadth, & runneng up by a brooke on the South side of It, one hundred & sixty pooles." It thus con- tained twenty-four acres. Its location is more definitely stated in Hutchins' will, wherein he speaks of his Garrison house and "about thirty acres more or less fronting the maine Creeck Bounded in breadth by Rowland Williams and Martins Cove." This was in 1693. Enoch Hutchins was killed by Indians in his own door. 9 May 1698. and his wife, who was Mary Stevenson of Dover, was carried into captivity. This seems to locate Hutchins' lot between Peter Lewis on the north and Nicholas Weeks and John Phoenix on the south, at Martin's Cove, just south of Pine Point.1
Thomas Withers had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Ben- jamin Berry and after his decease Dodavah Curtis. Withers
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Traced from original in Superior Court Records in Boston.
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willed to this daughter "all that Land on the Eastward side over aganest John Shapleighs, between John Hoole & Lewis." Jane, widow of Thomas Withers, confirmed this by a deed, dated 14 March 1690. It specifies the "land from Edmund Hamans Reaching home to Peter Lewiss, aboth sides the Easting Creek." Here Hamans is named on the northern boundary because Hoole had sold to him between the date of the will and that of the deed.
A plot of this region was made by John Godsoe when John Shapleigh sold, 26 Nov. 1762, to Richard Keating "land whereon I lately lived." containing sixty acres, "bounded Southerly and southwesterly by the mill pond and creek called Spruce Creek, northeasterly by land of Joseph Wilson, northerly and northeast- erly by the road, westerly and northwesterly by the land of Ben Hammons." and "my three-quarters of the mill thereto adjoining and the Dam, etc .. and one half acre on the west side of the Creek." James Johnson and wife, Lydia, sold. 17 March 1763, to Richard Keating ten acres, "bounded Southwesterly by Spruce Creek and on other parts by Richard Keatings land." "it being the land where my father Samuel Johnson of Kittery dec'd formerly lived. near the grist mill that stands on said creek where the old saw mill stood." The plot shows Benjamin Hammons' house and barn with the road between them ; also the house of Keatings, formerly of Dodavah Curtis ; also the old house of John Shap- leigh on Oak Point in 1679. A portion of the land marked in the plot as belonging to Joseph Wilson seems to have belonged orig- inally to Henry Bodge. In 1701 it is described as "eight acres lying on the North side of Spruce Creek, butting on the Creek at the westerly end and on the other sides by David Hutchings, Rowland Williams & ve Parsonage land and is the land whereon Bodge lived in his life time."
Withers and Benjamin Berry, sons of Elizabeth ( Withers) Berry, just mentioned. deeded the southern part of the above mentioned traet to Andrew Haley, HI June 1718. It contained twenty-five acres, bounded "on ye South Side by ye Lands of Peter Lewes and on ve East End with ye Lands of ye sd Andrew Haley and ve North Side with ye Eastern branch of Spruce Creek as far as ye Channel of ye Branch of sd Creek goes and on ye west End with ye sd Spruce Creek down to Low water mark."1
The northern part of the tract willed to Elizabeth Berry was
1York Deeds, IN .. 134.
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ceeded by her and her second husband, Dodavah Curtis, to her son, Withers Berry, 8 March 1722. It was described as "on the eastern side of the river called Spruce Creek over against Oak Point," containing fifty acres, bounded "Eastwardly by the Country road and Southwardly by the Eastern Creek and West- wardly by the river of sd Spruce Creek and Northwardly by Benja Hamons his Land." Withers Berry gave this back to his mother in his will and she willed it to her cousin Nicholas Shap- leigh in 1743, together with the saw-mill on Spruce Creek.
That saw-mill was erected by Withers earlier than 1681, and in 1683 ten acres of land on the east side of the river were sold to James Johnson, "beginning eight rodd above ye saw Mill and running thirty rods on the Creek." Johnson bought, also, one quarter of the saw-mill and corn-mill near by. This James John- son was a mill-wright from Hampton, N. H., and lived in Kit- tery only a short time, though his son Samuel settled there.
Next north of Dodavah Curtis was a tract of seventy-five acres sold by Thomas Withers to John Hoole. July, 1671. Hoole sold the southern half to Edmund Hammons, 26 July 1681, who had already bought two acres adjoining of Withers, in 1679. Here he and his son, Benjamin, lived many years. This family should be distinguished from the Hammond family that lived on the Pascataqua River. No connection between the two families has been traced.
Hoole sold the rest of the lot purchased of Withers, together with a town grant. to Joseph Curtis, brother of Dodavah already mentioned. 12 Nov. 1684. The lot contained one hundred and thirty-five acres. John Hoole had a house here in 1682. His wife's name was Elizabeth. He is later called a merchant of Barbadoes. The name has not been handed down in Kittery.
Joseph Curtis had already bought of Withers. 12 June 1682, eighty acres situated north of Hoole on Spruce Creek and bounded on the south by a "little Cricke where formerly Mr Hooles sparrs layd." Curtis had a Garrison house, and he well needed it, for he was pretty close to the frontier settlements. East of him Henry Bodge owned a small place called "Pudding Hole." He sold this to Curtis in 1682. Curtis was "bounded on ve upper side by Capt. Wm. ffernald."
The accompanying illustration shows more clearly than words can the situation at the head of Spruce Creek in the olden time. The basis of it is a plot drawn by John Godsoe, surveyor, and
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spread upon the town records by Tobias Leighton. It is, proba- bly, the only picture in existence of the Middle Parish Church. The houses appear in the orginal plot without any names attached, but it is evident from old deeds that the owners were as here indi- cated. The road to Pescatt is that to the Pascataqua River at Woodman's Ferry, where the old Rice Tavern now stands.
We will now go down Spruce Creek and glance at the settlers on the west side. Just across Curtis' Bridge and north of the road lived Samuel Johnson after he moved up from the east side near
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Shapleigh's Mill. He died here in the year the plot was made. He bought this piece of land of Nicholas Shapleigh in 1719. West of Johnson lived James Pickernell. South of Johnson lived Dr. Pierce a little later, and south of him was Shapleigh's "Oak Point Farm." This lay between the main branch of Spruce Creek and the "Western Creek." so called. North of the Western Creek was "Ox Point." sold to Richard Manson of Portsmouth in 1680. and by him conveyed to his son John. South of Manson lived Paul Williams in 1689.
Joseph Curtis' Garrison
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South of the Western Creek was Eagle Point, where Thomas Withers owned another farm. Indeed, his land stretched clear through from the river at Woodman's Ferry to Spruce Creek at this point. Twelve acres of the northerly part of Eagle Point were sold by Withers to John Ball in 1667, and the town added a grant of ten acres more, adjoining on the west, in 1671. Ball con- veyed the whole to his son-in-law, Francis Pettegrow, in 1717, for maintenance of himself and wife, Joan, during life. He was then bounded on the west by John Shepherd and on the south by William Godsoe. The first William Godsoe married the widow
"THE MAPLES," RESIDENCE OF RUFUS HARRISON REMICK.
of Thomas Withers and so got possession of Eagle Point and lived there. There are faint traces of his cellar about twenty-five rods from the extreme point of land and midway between two apple-trees still standing. The private burial-place of the Ball family is marked by seven or eight distinctly rounded graves near the hilltop west of where Ball's house stood. The Shepherd graveyard is further southwest, and the numerous rough granite headstones indicate that it was the burial place of several families
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