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phegan, on the easterly side of the Newichawannock, is now called South Berwick.
RAGG'S POINT. This point, other- wise called Betel's Point, is on the shore of the Rollins land in Newing- ton. It was so called from Jeffrey Ragg, whose name is on the Dover rate-list of 1648; probably the " Jaffry Ragge" who sold Roger Knight a house on Great Island pre- vious to May 20, 1651. A petition from the Newington people in Sept., 1753, says the town of Dover, in 1656, granted a cart-way of four rods wide from the water side at Jaf- frey Ragg his honse, and so into the woods to the old way. Complaint having been made that Samuel Raw- lins had fenced up this road as part of his own enclosure, the Court of General Sessions ordered, Dec. 4, 1753, that it should be re-opened. (See Newington in N. H. Town Papers, Vol. XII.) According to a plan of the Rawlins land among the State Papers at Concord, Jeffrey Ragg's house was on the shore of the Pascataqna, at the lower side of the old road now called Patterson's lane. (See Patterson's Pt. and Betel's Pt.)
RAILROADS. The following rail- roads now traverse lands that once formed a part of Ancient Dover.
I. The BOSTON AND MAINE RAIL- ROAD, which extends from Boston to Portland. This is a consolidation of the Boston and Portland R. R., chartered March 15, 1833; the old Boston and Maine road, chartered June 27, 1835 ; and the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts road, chartered March 12, 1839. The Boston and Maine R. R. was opened as far as Exeter in 1840; to Dover
in 1841 ; and to South Berwick the 23d of Feb., 1843. It acquired full possession of the Eastern Railroad (which was incorporated June 18, 1836 ; opened Nov. 9, 1840), and the Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Conway R. R. May 9, 1890, hav- ing been anthorized by the Mass. legislature of that year, and previ- ously by the General Court of Maine and New Hampshire.
II. The DOVER AND WINNIPI- SEOGEE R. R., from Dover to Alton Bay, was first chartered as the Cochecho R. R. in 1847. It opened as far as Rochester in Sept., 1849, and to Alton Bay in 1857. It now forms part of the Boston and Maine system, being leased to that road.
III. The PORTSMOUTH, GREAT FALLS, AND CONWAY R. R., com- pleted in June, 1872, is a consolida- tion of the Great Falls and Conway R. R., (which was chartered July 19, 1844, and opened to Union vil- lage in 1850), and the Great Falls and South Berwick R. R., which was chartered June 8, 1848, and opened July 1, 1854. Full posses- sion of these consolidated roads was taken by the Boston and Maine R. R. May 9, 1890.
IV. The PORTSMOUTH AND DOVER R. R. Chartered July 7, 1866. Opened Feb. 1, 1872.
V. The NASHUA AND ROCHESTER R. R., which traverses the township of Lee, was chartered July 5, 1867, and opened Nov. 24, 1874.
VI. The CONCORD AND PORTSMOUTH R. R., which traverses Greenland, was chartered July 1, 1845, and opened in 1852.
VII. DOVER HORSE RAILROAD.
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Chartered June, 1881. Opened July 3, 1882. This road extended from Sawyer's Mills to Garrison Hill, a distance of 2} miles, but has been superseded by the Electric railroad, which extends to Great Falls.
VIII. The ELECTRIC or UNION STREET RAILROAD. The Union Street Railroad Company was incorporated August 9, 1889, for the purpose of constructing an electric railroad from Sawyer's bridge in Dover, to the vil- lage of Great Falls in Somersworth. This road was opened Ang. 17, 1890. Midway in its course is a sta- tion at Burgett Park, which is in Somersworth, at the lower side of Willand's pond. (See Burgett Park.)
RALPH'S HILL. This hill is in Somersworth, near the Dover line, on the old road from Dover to Roches- ter, about a quarter of a mile above Willand's pond. The Granite State Park is in this vicinity. Its name was derived from Ralph Twombley, who, in early times, was driving a team of six oxen, withi a mast from the forest, when the runners slewed on this hill, throwing him beneath, and crushing him to death. The tra- dition of this occurrence has been preserved in the neighborhood, and it is also related in the N. H. Repub- lican (Dover) of Dec. 5, 1826, by Mr. Joseph Tibbets of Rochester, together with many other interesting details of forest life, in early times, acquired from his father and grand- father. Ralph Twombley, Jr., was alive March 19, 1693-4, but dead before June 9, 1702.
REDDING POINT. This is the first point above Hilton's Pt., on the west side of Dover Neck. It is so called the 5th, 5 mo., 1652, in the grant of
Goat Island to Wm. Pomfrett. A highway to Redding Poynt was or- dered to be laid out by the selectmen of Dover Aug. 3, 1666 ; John Rob- erts, Sr., to oversee the work. Dea- con John Hall, in his will of Feb. 1, 1685-6, gives his son Ralph half of " his marsh near Redden Point;" the other half to be Ralph's after the Deacon's death. John Hall, son of the above Ralph, conveyed to Nicho- las Harford Feb. 21, 1721-2, four acres of marsh and upland on the west side of Dover Neck, between two points, commonly called by ye name of Hilton's Point and Redding point, adjoining the salt water.
The name of this point was no doubt derived from Thaddeus Riddan or Redding. He was one of the wit- nesses when Thomas Layton conveyed to Richard Waldron, Ap. 8, 1653, one fourth part of the Bellamy saw- mill. He seems to have settled at Strawberry Bank, where he bought a house of Wm. Palmer Sept. 4, 1651. " Thaddeus Riddan " is mentioned in the Portsmouth records, April 5, 1652. And May 17, 1652, is the following entry : " Mr. Theados Rid- dan is chosen clarke of the courte."
RED OAK HILL. Mentioned March 19, 1693-4, when Thomas Ash had a grant of 40 acres from the town of Dover, on the south side of Red Oak hill, near the head of Stevenson's land. Forty acres were also granted to Jeremiah Burnum at Red Oak hill, Ap. 11, 1694. And Robert Smart, Sr., conveyed to Peter Coffin, March 10, 1695-6, 100 acres of land and meadow by the road going up unto the place where Capt. Wadleigh's mills stood, " near the hill called Red Oke hill," granted him by the
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town of Exeter. The name of this hill has not been retained, but ac- cording to a plan of the land con- veyed by Jaffrey to Folsom in 1739, it was on the Dover side of the ancient boundary between Dover and Exeter, a little below the mouth of Smart's creek. The wading-place across this creek, was, according to this plan, on, or very near, the boun- dary line. This creek empties into Lamprey river, which pursues nearly a straight course from the upper side of Red Oak hill to Wadleigh's falls. The Red Oak hill of the present day is in Epping.
RED OAK SPRING. This name is given to Major Waldron's spring, now unfortunately closed up, which was a little below the south line of Second street in Dover, a few feet west of Wm. B. Wiggin's house.
RED ROCK. This rock, so named from its reddish hue, is on the shore of Broad Cove, Lubberland. It was one of the bounds of the old Smith lands ; and the neighboring farm was called the " Red-Rock farm." Men- tion is made of it July 10, 1761, when Benjamin Smith conveyed to his son John 150 acres of land where said Benjamin formerly lived, but then occupied by said John, " begin- ning at the Red rock on the westerly side of the Broad Cove, so called, and running nearly S. W. 19 rods to another rock lying about half tide." The line extended in an opposite direction from Red Rock along the water side to Thomas Stevenson's land, whence it ran northeasterly to Field's marsh brook.
REYNER'S BROOK. Mentioned March 8, 1710-11, when 40 acres were laid out to Capt. John Tuttle "on the
south side of the Cochecho, nearly opposite Mr. Reyner's brook." And again June 29, 1728, when Thomas and Joseph Hall conveyed to John Horne one half of the hundred-acre grant to John Hall Ap. 2, 1694, "on the east side of ye Cochecho river, laid out by Mr. Rayner's brook." This name, still retained, was derived from the Rev. John Reyner, who settled in Dover in 1655, and in 1656 had a grant of 400 acres in the vicin- ity of this brook, which was laid out to John Waldron Oct. 23, 1719. (See Sunken Island.) John Waldron, in his will of May 12, 1740, proved July 30, following, gives 30 acres of land " bought of Rayner," to each of his daughters, viz: Elizabeth, wife of Ezra Kimball ; Mehitable, wife of James Chesley ; and Sarah, wife of Isaac Libbey. Reyner's brook emp- ties into the Cochecho river on the east side, above Watson's falls.
REYNOLD'S BRIDGE. "The new road to Reynold's bridge" is mentioned in 1865 as belonging to the " High- way District, No. 16," in Dover. And " the Mast road to Reynold's bridge" is mentioned the same year as belonging to " District No. 17." This is the mast road to Madbury. Reynold's bridge is the old mast bridge across Johnson's creek. The name was derived from Joseph Re- nolds, tanner, to whom Tristram Pinkham and wife Martha, Ap. 19, 1755, conveyed five acres, part of the tract said Martha received from her father Samuel Hayes, lying " on the westerly side of Back river, and on ye southerly side of ye road that leads over Mast bridge, adjoining said bridge, beginning at ye aforesd road at ye northeast corner of Maul
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Hanson's land," with " dwelling- house, barn, bark house, tan fats," etc.
RICKER'S HILL. This name is sometimes given to Otis' Hill in Som- ersworth, from the Ricker family that formerly owned the greater part, if not the whole, of this hill. (See Otis' Hill.)
RIVERSIDE STATION. This station is on the Dover and Winnipiseogee R. R., near Meader's bridge, in the upper part of Dover.
ROBERTS' CREEK. Mentioned March 24, 1657-8, when Thomas Lake and Richard Waldron conveyed to John Hall ten acres on the north side of John Roberts his creek. Thirty acres, granted to John Roberts by the town of Dover, were laid out on Great Bay the 14th, 8 mo., 1656, being part of the 400 acres on Great Bay granted to Dover by the General Court of Massachusetts. (Dover Records. ) John Roberts of Dover conveyed to Joseph Hall of Greenland, June 29, 1665, 18 acres of the above grant, specified as " part of the 400 acres," north of the land of John Hall, father of said Joseph. Wm. ffurber, the 12th, 10 mo., 1658, " Layd out to John Hall, by ord' from Capt. Wal- den " 250 acres of land and marsh, " bounded by a freshett on ye north yt runs unto John Roberts his creek and marsh, and comes out of ye Great Swamp, running up ye freshett 45 rods by ye side of ye freshett to a beach tree, and butting upon the west upon ye thirty acre lots of John Rob- erts, John Hall, and Richard Cater (Carter), and butting on ye south on a freshett that comes out of John Hall's fresh marsh, . . and run- ning into ye sd Cator's fresh marsh to
a white oak by ye side of ye freshett, then by the side of ye fresh marsh 80 rods to an ash tree standing between ye newfound marsh and ye fresh marsh, butting easterly on Strawberry bank common, and so upon a straight line to the first bound. Which 250 acres takes up the whole tract between ye two freshetts, and between ye fresh marsh and ye 30 acre lots, with 20 acres in ye fresh marsh, and with 10 acres on ye north side of John Roberts his creek, joining to a little Spott of salt marsh at high water mark, but- ting upon ye Great Bay and John Roberts' land." The name of Rob- erts' creek has not been perpetuated, but the two freshets above mentioned must have been Packer's brook and Pinkham's creek.
ROBERTS' MARSH. So named from Thomas Roberts, Sr., "of ye town of Dover, under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts," who conveyed to his sons John and Thomas, Jan. 16, 1670, "one half of his marsh lying and being at ye mouth of Winecott river, on ye westerly side thereof, at ye bottom of ye Greate Bay upon pascattaq river," adjoining Henry Tib- bett's marsh on the south, also " all ye creek, thatch, and flats, adjoining ye said marsh, occupying the upper- most point thereof, lying over against Watt Neale his marsh." Also 30 acres of land, " which was my part of the 400 acres granted by the court to ye town of Dover." Moses Roberts of Dover, Ap. 20, 1750, conveyed to Mark Hunking Wentworth four acres of marsh and thatch ground in Green- land, " called heretofore Thomas Rob- erts' marsh," granted said Thomas by the town of Dover, bounded northerly by Haines' marsh, easterly
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and southerly by Greenland river, and west by John Hall's marsh. Two thirds of the above marsh had been given to said Moses in the will of' his uncle Thomas Roberts, and the other third conveyed to him by John Roberts .- Joseph and Thomas Roberts of Dover, Aug. 14, 1717, conveyed to Matthias Haines 30 acres in Greenland, " being a divi- dend of land belonging to ye sd Robert's marsh," bounded north by Thomas Wille's land, and east by that of Philip Lewis.
ROBERT'S NECK. The neck of land, formerly so called, is in Lee, between Wheelwright's pond and its outlet, known as Oyster river. The name is derived from Wm. Roberts, who had a grant of 100 acres of upland the 23d, 10 mo., 1663, "on the South side of the fresh river near the pond that lyeth between Lamprill river and Oyster river fall." That same day the hundred acre grant to Win. Williams in 1656 was laid out on this neck. It is again mentioned June 4, 1720, when Richard Denbo conveyed to Salathiel Denbo (grand- son of Wm. Roberts) one share of 200 acres on the north side of Wheelwright's pond, at a place called Roberts' Neck, in Dover town- ship, which was formerly granted to Wm. Roberts. On the same day John Sias and Ann conveyed to said Salathiel two shares of the same neck. Twenty four acres of land in Durham at a place known by ye name of Roberts' Neck, are mentioned in the division of the estate of Joseph Jenkins, Feb. 25, 1734-5.
ROCHESTER. This township was for the most part originally owned and settled by the people of ancient
Dover. It was incorporated May 10, 1722, and so named, it is said, from the Earl of Rochester, England. It is mentioned in 1727, when com- plaint was made to the N. H. govern- ment that one Hanson and his asso- ciates had in 1725 cut down 34 white pines, out of which 33 masts and bowsprits had been made in Ports- mouth, pretending they were cut in a certain township called Rochester, but not then settled. (N. H. State Papers, 18 : 6-7.)
ROCKING STONE. A rocking stone in the Durham Point district was once so noted as to attract many vis- itors, and be reckoned among the natural curiosities of the state. Merrill's Gazeteer of N. H. (1817) speaks of it as a " remarkable rock weighing 60 or 70 tons, and lying so exactly poised on another rock as easily to be moved with one hand." Unfortunately it was dislodged from its position several years ago by some mischievous visitors, and could not be replaced. The rock itself is still to be seen on the farm lately owned by Mr. Brackett Edgerly.
There are many of these stones in Cornwall and Wales, where they are called Logan stones, from the word log, which signifies to rock or vibrate. They are supposed to be under the protection of fairies, who heavily avenge their overthrow. It would be a great satisfaction to know this was the case as to the offenders who overthrew the Durham rocking-stone, but the writer is utterly ignorant of their fate.
ROCKY HILL. This name is deserv- edly given to the first steep hill below Sawyer's bridge, Dover, on the road along the west side of Back river.
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There is also a Rocky Hill at Lub- berland. (See Great Hill.)
ROCKY HILLS. These are small, round, rocky hills in Somersworth, at the southeast side of Cole's Pond, above Tate's brook. The road that crosses them to Rochester is called the Rocky Hills road. A school at Rocky Hills is mentioned in the town records of 1797, and the school-dis- trict there is still called the " Rocky Hills district."
ROCK ISLAND. This little island is in the Pascataqua river, between Goat island and Fox Point. It was one of the links in the old Pascata- qua bridge, built in 1794, and, like Goat island, belongs to Newington.
ROCKY POINT. This point is on the shore of Broad Cove, Newington, between Fox Pt. and Stephen's Pt., now Bean's. It is a mere ledge pro- jecting from the shore, but apparently separated from it at high tide, and generally called Carter's Rocks. It is mentioned Ap. 9, 1702, when thirty acres of land were laid out to Mr. Nicholas Harrison " on bloody poynt side, in Dover, beginning at Rockey poynt, att henry Langstar's land, and so by the water side 21 rods upon an east line, thence on a south line to Joshua Crockett's land 116 rods, and so to henry Langstar's land on a west line 39 rods, and so to Rockey poynt where we began." Also 9 or 10 acres on the south side of the highway that leads from Broad Cove to the plains, etc. (See Car- ter's Rocks.) Joseph W. Pickering, administrator of the estate of Eleazar Coleman, conveyed to Cyrus Frink, Dec. 4, 1831, 48 acres of land in Newington, beginning at Rocky Point, so called, and running thence to the
northwestward of the grist-mill, thence as the creek runs to the middle of the cider-house, etc., together with the house, grist-mill, and all privileges. Mention is made of John Shackford's land at the S. E.
A Rocky Point is mentioned July 17, 1660, when it was agreed by the Dover authorities " that the house of Mr. Valentine Hill, which is his now dwelling at Rocky Point, shall be within the line of deuetion to Oyster River." This point may have been on the Durham shore, where Valen- tine Hill owned several large tracts of land. If he owned land on the Newington shore, it must have been re-granted after his death. The line of division between the Oyster River precinct (now Durham) and Dover proper, is thus stated in the Dover records, the 21st., 10 mo., 1657 : " The bounds of the inhabetance of oyster Reiver for the acomodating C of the ministery is the inhabitants that are or shall be scittuated from the next Rocky poynt on the north side below the mouth of the sayd River and from there by a straight line to the head of Tho Johnson's Creek to the Path thear, and from theare by a west line to the end of the Towne bounds. As allso all the inhabetantes on the south side of that line that either are or shall be thear seittuated are likewise to pay to the ministry there, excepting all the Inhabitants on fox poynt side that are or shall be in the letell Bay." This last sentence seems to imply that the Bloody Point district from Fox Pt. up Little Bay then belonged to the Oyster River precinct for civil, if not for ecclesiastical, purposes. In that case, Valentine Hill's house, if at
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Rocky Pt. on the lower side of Fox Point, could have been easily included within the above-mentioned line of division.
ROLLINSFORD. This township was set off from Somersworth July 3, 1849, and so named, it is said, from the Rollins and Wallingford families, prominent in the town. The latter, however, only contributed its final syllable to the name. The line of division between Rollinsford and the present town of Somersworth, was then stated to begin at the easterly end, at a point 115 rods southerly from Pray's brook, so called, and thence run in a straight line to the railroad crossing, south of the dwell- ing-house of Andrew Crockett, and thence in a straight line to a stone on the westerly line of the town, at the point where the line between it and Dover crosses the old road from Dover to Great Falls village.
ROLLINSFORD GARRISONS. The Pike house is said to have been a garrison, so named from the Rev. James Pike, a native of Newbury, Mass., who began his ministry at Somersworth in 1727, and was ordained Oct. 28, 1730. He is said to have planted the elms before his house with his own hands. It was here he died in the 65th year of his pastorate, March 19, 1792.
Another garrison was at Sligo. (See Sligo.)
" Ezekiel Wentworth's garrison" is mentioned March 6, 1710-11, as beyond Ebenezer Varney's corner, on the way from Cochecho to Quamphe- gan and Salmon falls. (N. H. Prov. Pap., 17 : 711.) It was on the Rollins- ford side of Garrison Hill, no doubt on the land still owned by the Went- worth family.
" The garrison of Capt. Benjamin Wentworth in Dover," is mentioned Nov. 18, 1724. (Ibid., XI : 510.) Capt. Wentworth lived at Quamphe- gan, near the turnpike bridge across the Newichawannock river. (See Quamphegan.)
The old Wentworth house at Sal- mon Falls, still standing, probably had defences at first. It was built by Col. Paul Wentworth about 1710.
ROLLINS STATION. This station is on the Portsmouth and Dover R. R., in Newington, adjacent to the Rol- lins farm.
ROUND SWAMP. Mentioned May 2, 1711, when six acres were laid out to the Rev. Nicholas Sever in the Round swamp, eastward of John Twomly's field, beginning at a white oak standing at the south side of the way that leads to fresh creek. Nich- olas Sever conveyed to Paul Gerrish, July 27, 1716, six acres, laid out to him by the town at a place called Round swamp, bounded northerly by ye highway yt goes down by John Twombly's, and on the other sides by the common lands. This swamp, so named from its shape, is on the eastern side of Dover, in the Bur- roughs pasture. It is surrounded by grey ledges, through which a brook finds its way, once known as Twombley's brook.
ROYALL'S COVE, otherwise RYALL'S. This cove, according to the State map of Dover in 1805, is on the southwestern shore of the Back River district, at the east side of Cedar Point. The name is generally sup- posed to have been derived from Teague Ryall or Royall, one of the early settlers at Oyster River. But
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his name does not appear in the rate- lists till 1661, about 20 years after mention is made of Royall's Cove. He was, for a brief period, the owner of a few acres of land in the interior of the Oyster River district, and then disappeared. His name does not ap- pear in connection with any enter- prise of that day. It is much more probable that Royall's cove was named from Wm. Royall, who was sent over from England to Gov. Endicott of Mass. in 1629, as a " cleaver of tim- ber." He was engaged in the lum- ber business, and like Henry Jocelyn. Philip Swadden, and others, perhaps came to the Pascataqua region before he went to the province of Maine. He is called a cooper and clapboard cleaver in 1644, when he purchased a tract of land in the present town of Yarmouth, Me., on the river West- custigo, which from him took the name of Royall's river. There he ended his days.
Royall's cove is mentioned in con- nection with lumber business as early as Sept. 14, 1642, when " Edward Colcord of Northam in Pascataway river," made over to Wm. Payne as a security, " my timber in Ryal's coue, being in number 200 trees, and all my trees wh are felled at fox poynt or the little bay, and all such boards and clap boards as are at both places." (County Registry, Exeter.) This cove is again mentioned the 5th, 5 mo .. 1643, when " Mr. Valentine Hill of Boston " had a grant of a 'neck of land extending " from a creek over against Thomas Steven- son's at Oyster River that hath an island in the mouth of it, to the head of that creek in Royall's Cove to ye part of the North East of Mr. Rob-
erts his marsh, and ten acres of upland. All the rest of that neck we give to Mr. Hill, and one hundred acres up in the country." Valentine Hill conveyed this neck of land be- tween Oyster river and Royall's cove to John Davis and John Meader. (See Meader's Neck and Garrison, and Davis's Garrison at Oyster River.) Thomas Layton, the 6th, 10 mo., 1656, had a grant of 100 acres on the west side of Back river, adjoining a twenty acre lot he bought of Ambrose Gibbons, previously Mr. Rogers' lot ;- which hundred acres were " laid out at the head of this twenty acre lot, 16 poles by the north- ernmost branch of Riall's cove, and so up the freshett 16 and 13 pole, the creek being on the south side." (See Frenchman's Creek.) Thomas Lay- ton, Sr., Feb. 13, 1670, " out of love and affection to his natural son, Thomas Layton, Jr .. " conveyed to him the dwelling house then in his possession. together with eight score acres of land, whereof 20 were granted Henry Tibbets, 20 to Mr. Rogers, and the rest to himself, all adjoining ; the whole bounded south by Riall Cove, east by Back river, north by a lot lately held by Elder Hatevil Nut- ter, and west partly by John Mead- er's land, and partly by Joseph fields, and separated from both by stony brook. (See Stony Brook.) Hatevil Nutter, as a portion to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Layton, Jr., conveyed to said Thomas, Feb. 13, 1670, a forty acre lot granted said Nntter by the town of Dover, between Oyster River and the Back river, bounded sontherly by land lately held by Thomas Layton, Sr., west by John Meder's land, north by
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Job Clement's, and easterly by " ye head of ye twenty acre lott."
In the return of the lands of Thomas Layton, deceased, in 1710, mention is made of three lots, viz : the second in the number of the 20 acre lots on the west side of Back river ; a 100 acre lot granted to Thomas Layton, Sr. ; and a 40 acre lot granted to Hatevil Nutter. These three lots were surveyed anew Ap. 10, 1710, to. Thomas Layton, " heir and successor" of the second Thomas ; "beginning at a small walnut tree on the bank by the river side, between frenchman's creek and the little marsh in Royal's Coue on the west side of Back river, and from said tree run- ning west and be northwesterly near- est 168 rods to the head of the north- most branch of Royal's Coue, and so said cove bounds this land on the south, and from that extent it runs up the freshet six score and thirteen rods to a run of water in the fresh marsh, which said freshet trends near norwest from the head of the creek to the aforesaid marsh, and so bounds this land on the S. W., and from that extent it runs 20 rods on the same course to the S. W. corner of Mr. Clement's 40 acre lott, said lott bounding this land to the S. E. corner of said Clement's lot, thence easterly 12 rods to a highway between this land and Samuel Emerson's, then near S. S. E. on the westward side of said way 50 rods to the crook in said Layton's fence, and from said crook to the first bound."
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