Landmarks in ancient Dover, New Hampshire, Part 28

Author: Thompson, Mary P. (Mary Pickering), 1825-1894
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Durham, N.H. : [Concord Republican Press Association]
Number of Pages: 310


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Thomas Leighton of Dover, Ap. 1, 1762, conveyed to Thomas Wal- lingford of Somersworth 100 acres of land in Dover, on the west side of Back river, running from ye said


river to Royal's cove, about 40 rods to the land of Joseph Meader west- ward, and by his land and Ephraim Davis's till it comes to Paul Nute's, and so along the lands of said Nute and Clement, and the land of John Leighton, to the first bound. This land was conveyed to Wm. King Atkinson by said Wallingford's heirs about 1798, and is now owned in part by Mrs. Simpson, together with the Atkinson house which stands on the height now called Atkinson's Hill. A part of the Leighton land on the same hill is now owned by Mr. Prescott.


John Meader, Sr., of Oyster River, June 17, 1679, conveyed to his son John, as his patrimony, " 30 acres on the neck of land that lyeth between Oyster river and ye Back river, being a moitie of a larger tract granted said John Meader, ye father, and Wm. Sheffield in ye year of our Lord God 1656, which three score acres were laid ont as followeth :- beginning at an asp tree some four rods from ye flowing of ye tide at ye head of Rial's Coue, thence N. by W. 142 rods by ye land which was lately Thomas Laiton's, and by ye land latelie Elder Nutter's to a red oak, thence W. by S. 68 rods to a hem- lock, thence S. by E. 142 rods to a great white oak, which tree being ye N. E. corner bound of ye land which ye sd John Meader honght of Mr. Valentine Hill, and from said oak to the asp tree at the head of Rial's Coue, reserving a highway one rod wide from said oak to ye asp tree for a watering way to said cove."


The inhabitants at Oyster River in 1695 petitioned to the Governor and Council to be incorporated as a sep- arate parish, " beginning at the head


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of Riall his core, and thence running place derived its name, of course, upon a N. W. line, " etc.


Twenty acres of land were laid out to Zacharias flield.1 Sept. 24, 1695, according to a grant to Mr. Thomas Roberts, Sr., deceased, " in ye bot- tom of Rial's Coue, on ye western side of ye back Rieuer, known by ye name of ve flirst twenty acor lott, bounded as followeth : beginning at a Red oake tree by ve creek side yt runs up to stonie brook, from said tree N. W. by W. 80 poles to a heap of stones near John Meader's fence, thence S. W. and by S. 40 pooles to a heap of stones near Joseph Meader's fence, thence S. E. and by E. 92 poles, and thence to the first bound, allowing yt strip of land yt falls below ye east line to fill np ye water by reason it falles on ye creek."


John Shapleigh of Kittery, and wife Sarah, July 20, 1699, conveyed to Joseph Smith and John Meader, Jr., both of Oyster River, all their right to a neck of land at the mouth of Oyster river formerly granted to Valentine Hill the 5th, 10 mo., 1643, " bounded to the head of Ryall's core, and so to the head of a cove, against Thomas Stinson's," except 20 acres belonging to Robert's marsh, and " the widow Hill's thirds during her life, forfeited to the crown."


ST. ALBAN'S COVE. This cove is on the western shore of the Newicha- wannock, below Quamphegan Falls. It is so called in the grant of the mill privilege on Fresh creek the 5th, 2 mo., 1652. The name is said to have been given by the early Tuttles of Dover, who came from Great St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, Eng., which


from the great proto-martyr of Eng- land. St. Alban's cove is variously called in the old records, St. Albon's, St. Albanes, Sentalbons, etc. (See Style's Cove.)


SALMON FALLS, and SALMON FALLS RIVER. The name of Salmon Falls river has been given for two and a half centuries to that part of the Newichawannock above the head of tide water. It was no doubt derived from the abundance of salmon found in this stream before the erection of mills. The Dover authorities of 1644 ordered the first salmon of the season, as well as other fish, to be given to the minister of the parish. The falls in this river, specially known as "Salmon falls," are at the manufacturing village of the same name, in Rollinsford. They are repeatedly mentioned in the early grants and deeds. In 1658 Thomas Hanson had a grant of 100 acres of land " neir the saman fall." Ralph Twombley's hundred acres " neir the saman full" is also spoken of the same year. And Major Richard Wal- dron, in a letter of Nov. 8, 1675, speaks of "Samon faull." (See N. H. Prov. Pup., 1 :356.) Edward Taylor of Exeter and wife " Rebec- kah " conveyed to Thomas Roberts, July 20, 1699, 50 acres on the west side of Salmon falls river, a little below ye Salmon fall, bordering on the N. W. on a tract formerly in the occupation of George Broughton, on the S. W. by a tract commonly called the Quamphegan grant, or Sheaf's land, and on ye east by the river, reserving a cartway from


1 Zachariah Field married the daughter of John Roberts, son of Thomas Roberts, Sr. John Roberts' wife was Abigail, daughter of Hatevil Nutter.


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Salmon falls mill to the usual rafting- place for delivering boards. John Tuttle and Ezekiel Wentworth had a grant of the mill privilege on the west side of the Salmon falls, Oct. 27, 1701. And May 19, 1702, they had the grant of an ox-pasture of 30 acres, "accomadable to their mill- grant at Salmon falls, . . begin- ning at the river below the mill, where they hall up boards." One side of this tract was bounded by " the King's road that leads to Salmon falls." A cartway, four rods wide, was reserved, to go through this land, " from Salmon falls to the usual landing-place at Edward Tail- ers." John Tuttle, Sr., conveyed to John Wentworth, July 29, 1709, one eighth part of the westward side of the lower fall, alias foot fall, of the Salmon falls river, with the accom- modation of land belonging thereto, between said fall and the cart path that leads from the aforsd Salmon falls to Edward Tailer's former plan- tation. John Tuttle, in his will of Dec. 28, 1717, gives his son Ebenezer all his right at the middle fall, lying between the two falls, on the west side of Salmon Fall river. Ebenezer Tuttle, Feb. 5, 1721-2, conveyed to Capt. Benjn Wentworth and Thomas Wallingford one quarter part of the falls commonly called ye middle falls, between ye two mills on the westward side of a river commonly called Salmon fall river, opposite a mill in ye possession of John Key and James Grant, which aforesd fall was granted to Capt. John Tuttle by the town of Dover.


Elizabeth Wentworth of Boston conveyed to Paul Wentworth of "Summersworth," Nov. 2, 1730, ten


acres of an ox-pasture between lands of ye widow Martha Wentworth, Mr. John Yeaton, Mr. Love Roberts, Mr. Elijah Tuttle, and ye highway which leads to Salmon falls. Also "one eighth part of ye upper mill upon ye shoar upon Salmon falls, and one eighth of ye shoar mill upon ye middle falls," with the stream and all privi- leges on the west side of Salmon falls river. Paul Wentworth, in his will of Feb. 3, 1747-8, gives his brother Gershom Wentworth certain rights in " the upper mill standing on Salmon falls"; to his nephew Paul Wentworth certain rights in the middle mill on the westerly side of Salmon falls river, near the widow Drew's dwelling, (this was Abigail, widow of John Drew) and his part of the grist-mill standing near said saw- mill ; and to his nephew Paul Brown certain rights in the middle mill and in the lower mill, both standing on the westerly side of Salmon falls river.


The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company was incorporated June 17, 1822, and a mill for woollen cloths was built soon after, which was burned down Aug. 7, 1834. The first cotton mill was established here in 1844, and became the nucleus of the present factories, around which has sprung up the village of Salmon Falls, the only village in Rollinsford.


Salmon Falls woods are mentioned Ap. 17, 1742, when Mary Corson (and Zebulon) daughter of Capt. Samuel Tibbets of Dover, deceased, conveyed to Capt. John Wallingford all right and title to an eighty-acre grant to said Samuel in the Salmon Falls woods, so called.


SAM ROE'S HILL. This hill is in


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Newington, near the source of the Trout brook, onee known as Har- wood's creek. The name is derived from a descendant of Richard Row or Roe, who acquired land at Welsh Cove June 17, 1658. (See Welsh Cove.) and Harwood's Creek.


SANDY BANK. Mentioned the 8th, 5 mo., 1664, when 20 acres of land were laid out to Hugh Dunn1 at "a place called Sandy Banke up lampril river," granted him in 1656, begin- ning at a marked tree by the river side at a deep gully. It is again mentioned Oet., 1717, when John Footman sold "Joseph Duedy " twenty aeres of land on the north side of Lamprey river, beginning at a hemlock by the river side, "at a deep gully at a place called Sandy bank." This land had been given John Footman by his grandfather, " Philip Cromeele " (Crommet or Cromwell). Joseph Duda, black- smith, Nov. 28, 1743, sold John Crommet two aeres at Hugh Dun's, between Crommet's pasture and Du- da's swamp. Sandy Bank is just Whore Hook Island falls, and now 442000 belongs to the Newmarket Mannfac- turing Company. The gully above mentioned is still to be seen, and not far off is a large swamp now owned by the Yorke family.


The Joseph Duda here spoken of married Rebecca Adams. In a deed of 1712 he signs his name " Joseph Dowdy." (See Adams Garrison.) In another of 1716 he writes it " Jo- seph Duda." Joseph Duda's name


is on the muster-roll of Capt. James Davis in 1712. The Rev. Hugh Adams of Oyster River, Nov. 10, 1717. records the baptism of Joseph Doody, Rebecca his wife, and Ben- more and Susanna, their children. Sept. 18, 1726, he baptized Temper- ance Dudey, infant of Joseph Dudey.2 Joseph Duda was the son of Philip, who appears to have first lived in that part of Exeter which is now Newmarket. The name of " Philip Duday " is signed to a petition from the people of New Hampshire to the Massachusetts government, Feb. 20, 1689-90. Dee. 30, 1738, Philip Duda of Arundell, York Co., Maine. for thirty pounds, conveyed to his son Joseph Duda, of Durham, blacksmith, fifty acres of land in Exeter, granted said Philip Feb. 25, 1698. Philip signs with a mark in both instances.


Rebecca, the first wife of Joseph Duda, left at least five children. April 8, 1756, Benmore Duda, Su- sanna (Duda) wife of Francis Dui- gin, Nicholas Duda, Trueworthy Durgin, and Mary Duda his wife, and Zebulon Duda of Newmarket, chil- dren of Joseph Duda of Durham, blacksmith, and Rebecca his wife, deceased, for ten pounds conveyed to their uncle, Thomas Bickford of Madbury, and Esther (Adams) his wife, lands at Caley's marsh (Canl- ley's marsh at Durham Point), and in Madbury, which belonged to the estate of their grandfather Adams. Joseph Duda died before Dec. 25, 1751, on which day his widow


1 Hugh Dunn went to New Jersey as early as 1666, and was one of the first settlers of Piscata- qua, in that state.


2 The name of Temperance was derived from Temperance Benmore, wife of Charles Adams, and daughter of Philip Benmore. She inherited lands on the south side of Sturgeon creek, in Kittery. (See York Records.)


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Hannah (his second wife) testified as to the correctness of the inventory of his estate, in which is mentioned his shop, anvil, sledge-hammer, dwelling- house, barn, and thirty two acres of homestead land.


Nicholas, son of Joseph and Re- becca Duda, was born about 1730. He seems to have been married at an early age. The Rev. John Adams of Durham, Jan. 13, 1754, records the baptism of Deborah, daughter of Nicholas Doody. "Nicolas Dudy, constable," is mentioned in the Dur- ham records of 1755. " Nicholas Dudy " was one of the first selectmen in Lee after the incorporation of that town. He was apparently the first to change his surname to Durell. The late Judge Durell was his grand- son. The first time the name appears so written is in a deed from Nicholas Durell of Durham to Benjamin Rich- ards of Rochester, Feb. 14, 1754, but it continued to be called and gener- ally written Duda at least half a cen- tury later, as many people still recol- lect. The name of Benmore Duda (brother of Nicholas) is on the Dur- ham rate-list of 1778. In that of 1787 it is written Benmore Dudy. In 1788 it is Benmore Durril. In 1789 it was first written Benmore Dudy, then the surname was half effaced and Durril substituted. It is Ben- more Dudy again in 1791, after which it disappears. In the Lee records, the name of "Joseph Duda " is on the rate-list of 1794, but on that of 1795 he is called " Joseph Durrel."


Nothing appears in the early ree- ords to justify the assertion that the Doody or Duda family came from the Isle of Jersey, much less that it was of Norman extraction. Doody is


still a well known name in Ireland, especially in Kerry. It is derived from the ancient O'Dnbhda, signify- ing dark complexioned, and is now variously written as Doody, Dowd, and O'Dowd, etc. The last form is dear to every reader of Thackeray's " Vanity Fair."


SANDY BROOK. See C'utt's Brook.


SANDY LOG HILL. This hill is in the upper part of Dover, the west side of the Cochecho river, on the road from Tolend to Rochester. It is mentioned Nov. 5, 1741, when 27 acres of land were laid out to John Hanson, Jr., beginning at Sandy log hill, at the S. E. end of the plain commonly called the Ealware plains, a little above the uppermost end of John Tibbet's fence, at the east side of the old mast path, and running somewhat northerly, as said path goes, as far as Rochester line, then nearly N. E. as that line runs, till it comes to the Cochecho river at the small neck of land which said Hanson hath fenced in, then running down the river to the Ealware falls, and thence down the river to Sandy log hill, where we first began, having the said river on the casterly side, and the mast path on the westerly side. Twelve acres of land were laid out to James Kielle Jan. 24, 1750, on the west side of the road "right against the Sandy logg hill, or the bend of the river."


SANDY POINT. Two points of this name are mentioned in the early records. One of them is on the east- ern side of Dover Neck, at the upper side of Pomeroy's Cove, now Card's Cove, and still retains its ancient name, no doubt derived from the sandy nature of the soil. Thomas


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Beard had a grant of three acres of land on Dover Neck, Ap. 4, 1642, " bounded by land in the possession of Thomas Wiggin on ye south side, in the swamp towards Sandy poynt." He and his wife Mary conveyed this land to Richard Waldron Dec. 6, 1654. This point is again mentioned the 5th, 10 mo., 1652, when Richard Walderne or Waldron had the grant of Pomeroy's cove on Dover Neck " from Sandy point right over to the other side of the Coue, to make a Docke," Capt. Walter Barefoot, the 2d, 3 mo., 1652, had a grant of "fower scoer foot in Breadth of flates below hiewater mark at Sande poynt," and twenty four feet of upland. And " Capt. Richard Walld- ern " also had a grant of 24 feet of upland " to joine to his former grant of flats at Sande poynt."


Isaac Nash of Dover and his wife Margery (both deceased before Feb. 17, 1664) conveyed to Thomas Kem- ble, Nov. 6, 1658, a dwelling-house on Sandy poynt in Dover, with six acres of upland adjoining, and all the marsh in pomryes Cove. Thomas Kemble and his wife Elizabeth con- veyed the same to Peter Coffin Jan. 18, 1662. Peter Coffin (and Abigail), Feb. 17, 1664, conveyed to Anthony Nutter " ye said dwelling-house and six acres of upland, and the aforesd marsh in pomeryes cove." John Red- man of Hampton, Ap. 19, 1673, con- veyed to Capt. Richard Waldron, 3 acres of land on Dover Neck, granted him the 4th, 2 mo., 1642, bounded by Thomas Wiggin on ye south side in ye swamp towards Sandy poynt, which land was formerly in possession of said John Redman, and commonly called by ye name of Redman's shopp.


A SANDY POINT of greater note is in Stratham, at the lower side of the month of Squamscot river. It is mentioned in connection with ancient Dover, which extended along the Greenland shore of Great Bay to a bound forty rods below Sandy Point. (See N. H. Prov. Pap., 1 : 222.) Near this point lived Capt. Thomas Wiggin of Bloody Point celebrity, the so-called governor of Pascataqua, and the constant friend to Massachu- setts Bay. He died about 1667. The cellar of his house can still be traced. Part of the large tract of land he acquired in this vicinity is still owned by his descendants, who are justly proud of their origin.


SANDY POINT MARSH. Mentioned March 12, 1695-6, when Marie Lake of Boston, widow of Thomas Lake and executrix of his will, and John and Anne Cotton of Hampton, heirs of said Thomas, for themselves and for Mr. Thomas Lake of London, son and heir of said Thomas, de- ceased, conveyed to Peter Coffin a tract of land adjoining the river com- monly called the Great bay, being half the tract of land and marsh which said Thomas Lake and Major Richard Waldron reserved for them- selves when they sold their other land to Mr. Thomas Wiggin. " The marsh ground, commonly called by the name of Sandie point marsh" adjoined the marsh of said Wiggin, and the upland adjoining extended from the Great Bay to Winnicot river, " and so up to Wm. Davis's fence, and so to the dividing line between Andrew Wiggins's land and this land; that is, one half of all this land in compass, excepting only that part which was granted to Dover


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by the General Court at Boston." Peter Coffin of Exeter, June 2. 1696, conveyed to his son Peter of Nan- tucket 200 acres of land he had purchased of Mrs. Lake of Boston on the S. W. side of the Great Bay.


The SAPLINGS. "The road that leads to the Saplings above Mallago river, so called," is mentioned in con- nection with land laid out to Benjn Mason in April, 1734, beginning at a beech tree at the side of this road, at the east corner of Wm. Twomble's land. " The road that goes from Littleworth to the Saplings, so called," is mentioned Sept. 20, 1734, when land adjoining was laid out to Edward Cloutman. A petition was made Dec. 8, 1734, and again Ang. 7, 1736, for a road " from Demerit's mill to the Mallego road at the Saplings." This petition was granted Aug. 16, 1736. (See Demerit's Mill.) Ten acres and 140 rods of land were laid out to Robert Hanson, June 1, 1739, on the S. W. side of a piece of land belonging to the Quakers, at a place called the Sap- lings. (Sce Quaker Pastures.) The Saplings, a name no longer in use, were evidently in the upper part of Madbury adjacent to the Mallego river, near the terminus of the cross road from Bellamy Hook.


SARAH PAUL HILL. This hill formed part of the old Chesley lands on the upper side of Beech Hill, and was so named from Sarah, wife of Paul Chesley, who, during a long widowhood, displayed great force of character and a taste for litigation. She was called Sarah Paul to distin- guish her from " Sarah Limmy," the


widow of Lemuel Chesley, and daugh- ter of Samnel Smith. They are both mentioned in the Durham rate-list of 1778. At the foot of this hill is the " Sarah Paul Spring," the source of Stony brook, which empties into Beard's creek.


SAUNDER'S POINT. This point is below Salmon Falls, just above the foundry. Here lived the widow Elizabeth Saunders who married Master Tate, the noted school-master of Somersworth. This point must not be confounded with the Sander's Point of early times, where Ambrose Gibbons, the early pioneer on the Newichawannock, was buried. The latter is connected with Great Island by a bridge near the Wentworth House which extends from the island across to Sander's Point.


SAWYER'S BRIDGE. This name is now given to the bridge across the Bellamy river near the residence of Ex-Governor Sawyer in Dover, for- merly called Dunn's bridge, Libbey's bridge, and Gerrish's bridge.


SAWYER'S MILLS. These mills are at the lowest falls in the Bellamy river, at the south side of the city proper of Dover. For more than a century the saw-mill and grist-mill here were called Gerrish's mills, hav- ing been given by Major Richard Waldron, Oct. 17. 1683, together with all the lands, timber grants, water privileges, etc., belonging thereto, as a marriage portion to his two daughters, Anna, wife of the Rev. Joseph Gerrish of Wenham, Mass., and Elizabeth, wife of John Gerrish of Dover. Joseph Gerrish, May 20, 1701, conveyed his wife's half of this property to John Gerrish,


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who thus became the sole proprietor. (See Bellamy Falls and Mills. )1


SAWYER'S STATION. This is a sta- tion on the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad, near Sawyer's mills in Do- ver.


SAWYER'S VILLAGE. The line of tenement houses along the Bellamy, near Sawyer's mills, erected for the benefit of the operatives, is popularly so -called. The longest of these houses is known as the Ten Com- mundments-a name facetiously given in the course of its erection, be- cause it was divided into ten tene- ments.


SCATTERWIT. This name is given to a district above the Upper-Factory falls in Dover, adjoining the Coche- cho on the easterly side. It is men- tioned June 23, 1701, when Ebenezer Varney had a grant of 30 acres near Scatterwitt country. Tristram Heard, in his will of Ap. 18, 1834, gives his daughter Jean, wife of Benjamin Hayes, one half of his sixty-acre lot at Scatterwit. The name is otherwise written, May 7, 1736, when Wm. Welland conveyed to Isaac Libbey 14 acres of land " on the north side of ye way yt leads to Scatnet. Six acres of land were laid out to Benjn Roberts Feb. 26, 1739, at a place called Scatterwit, beginning at a white oak near Ezra Kimball's shop on the north side of the road that leads to said Scatterwit, then running by Ebenezer Varney's land. The road from Gage's Hill to the Long Hill road is now called the Scatterwit road. Sanford and Everts' Atlas incorrectly calls this district " Scatter-


with." The present county farm is in Scatterwit.


SCHOOL-DISTRICTS. A school was established on Dover Neck at an early day. The town ordered the 5th, 2 mo., 1658, that 20 pounds per annum be raised to maintain a school- master in the town of Dover, to teach all the children " to reid, write, cast a compte, latine, as the parents shall require." (N. H. Prov. Pap., 1 : 312 ) The school-districts of Dover are thus enumerated in 1790: 1. Centre district. 2. Dover Neck. 3. Littleworth. 4. Tolend. 5. North Side, Garrison Hill. 6. Long Hill, from R. Kimball's to N. Varney's. 7. Fresh Creek. 8. Black Water. 9. Back River, south end. 10. Back River, Mast road. The Dover school- districts of the present day are : 1. Back River. 2. Upper Factory. 3. Garrison Hill. 4. Blackwater. 5. Long Hill. 6. Tolend. 7. Little- worth. 8. Upper Neck. 9. Lower Neck. These do not include the dis- tricts in the city proper.


The Durham school-districts are mentioned in the town records of 1794 as follows : 1. Falls, 1st North district ; i. e., in Durham village. 2. Falls, 2d North district ; i. e .. the district around Buck's hill. 3. Falls, South district, now the Broth Hill dis- trict. 4. Lubberland. 5. Point dis- trict. 6. Packer's Falls. 7. District below Jones's Creek. This is called Buck River district in 1799. It is now sometimes called the Bridge or Pascataqua Bridge district because it extends to the Durham terminus of the old Pascataqua bridge. 8. District


1 In the article Bellamy Falls and Mills Wm. Follet is said to have conveyed his part thereof to Richard Waldron Ap. 27, 1675. It was in the year 1671, and Waldron's deed to Joseph Ger- rish says it was on the 20th of April.


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above Wm. Spinney's. This is called the Mast Road District in 1797, which name it still retains.


There were schools in Lee before its separation from Durham. Col. Hercules Mooney was one of the early teachers there, and after its in- corporation he taught there from 1766 till the Revolution, and at the close of the war he laid down his sword to resume the ferule.1 The Hook school is mentioned in the town records of 1771. Schools at Newtown and Wadleigh's falls are mentioned in 1790, and at Little river and North river in 1791. They were no doubt in operation much earlier. "School in the Mastway " and " Mastway dis- trict " are mentioned in 1791. "Lower Newtown district," now Layn's district, is mentioned in 1800.


Madbury established schools as soon as it was made a separate par- ish. A vote was passed March 31, 1757, that schools of two months each be kept at James Pinkham's (now District No. One); at the Meet- ing-house; at Mr. Hill's house at Freetown; and at Ichabod Canney's house, afterwards called the North school-district, now No. Four.


The Newington records of 1762 mention 303 pounds "paid Capt. Mooney for keeping school." This was the above-mentioned Hercules Mooney. Col. John Downing, in his will of Sept. 5, 1755, proved March 12, 1766, gives one acre of land, then in the possession of Nicholas Knight, on the highway from Newington meeting-house to Greenland, for a school-house, and




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