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" CAPT. TUTTLE'S GARRISON " is mentioned Nov. 13, 1696 ( Prov. Pup., 2 : 246.) This was John Tuttle, who was Captain of the military forces of Dover proper from 1692 till 1704. His dwelling-house and homestead lands, according to his will of Dec. 28, 1717, were on Dover Neek,
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"between Nutter's land and Hilton's Point."
DREW'S GARRISON at OYSTER RIVER. (See p. 182-3.) According to the probate records at Exeter, Thomas and Francis Drew were both killed by the Indians in 1694. Mary, widow of Thomas, was appointed adminis- trator of his estate July 30, 1694. Letters of administration upon the estate of Francis Drew were first granted to his brother John Nov. 16, 1694. But it is furthermore stated that " Whereas Thomas Drew, sur- viving son and eldest unto ye afore- said Francis deceased, is now return- ed from captivity out of the hands of the Indian Enimie, and claimes the administration upon his father's es- tate," his claim was granted Nov. 16, 1696. The above John Drew is no doubt the one killed by the Indians " by the Little Bay"-Pike says, Ap. 27, 1706. Belknap says the garrison was near, but not a man in it. The women, however, put on hats, gave the alarm, and fired away so briskly that the Indians fled. This shows that there was a second Drew's gar- rison at Oyster River.
HODGDON'S HILL. This hill is in Madbury. It is crossed by the lower road from Durham village to Dover, near the house now belonging to the heirs of the late Stephen Jenkins, but formerly owned by Peter Hodg- don, from whom this hill derived its present name.
LOG HILL SPRING. This spring was once noted in Dover for the cool- ness and excellence of its never fail- ing water. It is at the foot of the old Log Hill, on land now owned by Mr. S. H. Foye, in the rear of his dwelling-house on Washington St.
It was on the very shore of the old bed of the Cochecho, which here made a deep bend before the cut was made to straighten it for the benefit of the Portsmonth and Dover R. R. This road, crossing the Cochecho, traverses Log Hill, a short distance east of the spring. The outlet of the spring was formerly into the river itself, and so cold was the water that this part of the stream was avoided by bathers. Log Hill Spring is still accessible. The old path from Major Waldron's Log swamp terminated at Log Hill, whence the logs were rolled down to the mill-pond.
NARROWS. The Narrows in the Pas- cataqua river below Boiling Rock, mentioned on page 155, must not be confounded with the Narrows further below, between Peirce's island and Trefethen's island.
PENELOPE'S COVE. This cove is on the western shore of the Salmon Falls river, in the southeastern part of Rochester, not far above the Dover line. It derived its name from Pen- elope, wife of Aaron Tibbetts.
POMEROY'S COVE. (See p. 210.) The name of this cove has been ascribed to Richard Pomeroy, but on what grounds does not appear. No Pom- eroys belonged to the Dover Combi- nation of 1640, or are to be found in the earliest rate-lists. Leonard Pom- eroy is mentioned in 1622 as one of the associates of David Thomson for col- onising the Pascataqna region. but it does not appear that he came here. Joseph Pomry was here before 1674, in which year his estate was admin- istered by his widow Elizabeth. (Coun- ty Records, Exeter.) Pike records the marriage of " Rebecca Pommery, widow," to " Clement Rummeril,"
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Sept. 6, 1687. And a "Wm. Pom- rey " is mentioned as serving in gar- rison in 1697. (Pror. Pap., 2 : 246.)
PORTSMOUTH. (See p. 210.) Capt. John Smith's map of New England in 1614, gives the name of Hull to the site of the present city of Ports- month, and the name of Boston to York, Me.
The POUND. Mentioned Oct. 3, 1734, when Joseph Twamley, aged 73 years, or thereabouts, testified that he " wel knows ye lands lying in Dover a little below Cochecho falls wch are called Sheffield's lands, and have been so accounted for more than 60 years last past. & yt he wel knows yt there was a highway or cart path weh run from ye Publick high- way down between Tobias Hanson's fence and where the Pound now is, along by ye place where Joseph Han- son's house now is, unto sd Sheffield's lands for more than 60 years last past, & he wel knows ye sd way was always kept open & improved by Every Body yt had occasion to use it." According to the Historical Memoranda (No. 282) in the Dover Enquirer, Tobias Hanson lived where is now the Edmund J. Lane house, on Central Avenue ; and Joseph Hanson lived where the Drew house is, on Hanson St. William Sheffield, whose lands are mentioned above, had also a grant at Oyster river. (See Meuder's Neck and Royall's Cove.)
The Pound is again mentioned Sept. 5, 1735, when Eliphalet Coffin conveyed to Joseph Hanson two acres of land in Dover, bounded S. by ve highway yt leads to Littleworth, W. by David Watson's two-acre home lot, N. by " Leah's field, as is so called," and E. by " a small gore
claimed by Mr. Richard Waldron yt lyes over against ye pound :- being the very same land where Tristram Coffin, father of Eliphalet, formerly lived." An orchard on it is men- tioned. These two acres, with an orchard thereon, are mentioned in Eliphalet Coffin's will of Jan. 15, 1734-5, proved in 1736. The above- named Tristram was the son of Peter Coffin. Dr. Quint supposes Tris- tram's garrison to have stood near the house of the late Gov. Martin, and the second Tristram's house to have been near the residence of the late Br. Thomas H. Cushing.
RICHARDSON'S HILL. This name is given to the eastern slope of the " Falls hill" in Durham village, from the Richardson honse near the top, formerly a public house. "Capt. Joseph Richardson's tavern " is men- tioned in the Durham records July 8, 1793. He had previously served in the Revolutionary war. (See Falls Hill.)
RIVERS. Going from Newmarket to Dover, the Boston and Maine R. R. crosses the Pascassick river just after leaving Newmarket village. At this point Follet's brook empties into the river, and the neighborhood called Hallsville is to be seen at the left. The next stream crossed by the rail- way is Lamprey river, here spanned by the so-called Diamond bridge. This is in the Pucker's Falls district, before arriving at Bennet's crossing, where trains from opposite directions often pass each other. Farther on, between the so-called Mill-roud cross- ing and the Durham station, the rail- way crosses the fresh part of Oyster river, here contracted to a mere brook. Beyond the Madbury station
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it crosses the Bellamy, and, just be- fore entering Dover city, the river Cochecho, otherwise Cocheco.
ROCHESTER HILL. This name is sometimes given to Haven's Hill, in Rochester, around which the first set- tlers of the town gathered, and here built a meeting house in 1731.
SENTER'S SWAMP. (See page 231.) Henry Senter's name is signed to a Dover petition of 1685. (Prov. Pap., 1 : 561.)
STEPHEN'S POINT. (See p. 239-40.) Those who are fond of ascribing an Indian origin to the names of places, such as Herod's Cove, Swadden's Creek, etc., will be glad to know, in connection with Stephen's Point, oth- erwise Stephen Jethro's or Jether's, that an Indian named Peter Jethro is mentioned in 1676. (See Prov. Pap., 1 :358, 360.)
STONY POINT. This name is given to a point on the west side of Back
river, between the mouth and the Three Creeks.
UPPER and LOWER WEIR. The former is mentioned Jan. 22, 1770. when it was voted to build a new bridge " over the upper ware, so called, next below Capt. Thos Wk Waldron's mills at Cochecho, below ye lower falls." This weir, of course, was at the lower bridge in the city proper, at the foot of Washington St. The Lower Weir, or Ware, as it was usually called, was, it is said, at or a little below the foot of Young street.
SWADDEN'S CREEK. (See p. 248-9.) Philip Swadden was in N. H. as early as 1633. (Prov. Pap., 1 : 72.)
WILD-CAT ROAD. This road leads from Waldron's Hill, Barrington, to the district derisively called "France," and thence to Leathers City. Wild- Cat Hill is about half a mile from Barrington Post Office.
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A List of the Lots in FRANKLIN CITY, with the Names of their respective Owners when first laid out :
1. JOHN RINDGE.
2. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
3. DANIEL FRENCH.
4. CHARLES PIERCE.
5. ISAAC WALDRON.
6. WILLIAM ROBIE, JR.
7. WILLIAM K. ATKINSON.
8. EDWARD GOVE.
9. THOMAS HAM.
10. SAMUEL SHERBURNE.
11. NATHANIEL WHITE.
12. EDWARD SWAIN.
13. SAMUEL HILL.
14. WILLIAM K. ATKINSON.
15. NATHANIEL UPHAM.
16. MOSES CANNEY.
17. JOSEPH TILTON.
18. WILLIAM COGSWELL.
19. THOMAS PINKHAM, JR.
20. THALES G. YEATON.
21. SAMUEL SHERBURNE.
22. CAPT. JOSEPH SMITH.
23. STEPHEN DAVIS.
24. SAMUEL SHERBURNE.
25. JOHN P. GILMAN.
26. RICHARD HART.
27. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
28. AARON WINGATE.
29. THOMAS FURBER.
30. RICHARD DAME.
31. NOAH JEWETT.
32. MOSES LITTLE.
33. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
34. SAMUEL TENNEY.
35. ANDREW SIMPSON.
36. BALLARD PINKIIAM.
37. ABNER GREENLEAF.
38. ISAAC LORD.
39. JOSHUA HARTFORD.
40. EZRA HUTCHINGS.
41. ANDREW SIMPSON.
42. NATIIANIEL WHITE.
43. NATHANIEL CLOUGH.
44. LEVI DEARBORN.
45. BENJAMIN BUTLER.
46. RICHARD HART.
47. THOMAS BECK.
48. TOBIAS TUTTLE.
49. TIMOTHY PINKHAM.
50. WILLIAM K. ATKINSON.
51. BENJAMIN MOORE.
52. ISAAC WALDRON.
53. TIMOTHY WINN.
54. MARK SIMES.
55. MOSES LITTLE.
56. BENJAMIN HASKELL.
57. SAMUEL CARTER.
58. RICHARD HART.
59. ISAAC WALDRON.
60. COGSWELL & PINKHAM. 61. JOSEPH SMITH, Dover.
62. THOMAS COGSWELL, JR.
63. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS.
64. JEREMIAH STICKNEY.
65. JAMES MCCLARY. 66. MOSES CANNEY.
67. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS.
68. FRANCIS COGSWELL.
69. GREENLEAF CILLEY.
70. EDWARD J. LONG.
71. WILLIAM K. ATKINSON.
72. JOSEPH PARSONS.
73. DAVID STONE.
74. THOMAS LEAVIT.
75. SAMUEL HILL.
76. ABNER & WILLIAM BLASDELL.
77. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
78. JOHN LOCKE.
79. CARR LEAVITT.
80. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
81. SAMUEL STORER.
82. JOHN DEARBORN.
83. JAMES H. MCCLARY.
84. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
85. ISAAC WALDRON.
86. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
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87. MOSES L. NEAL. 88. JAMES TISDELL.
113. THOMAS BECK.
114. MOSES CANNEY.
89. RICHARD DAME.
115. EBENEZER CHADWICK.
90. EPHRAIM BLASDELL.
116. MOSES CANNEY.
91. SAMUEL HILL.
117. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
92. THOMAS JOHNSON.
118. JAMES TISDELL.
93. EBENEZER CRUMMET.
94. SAMUEL SHERBURNE.
120. RICHARD HART.
95. THOMAS JOHNSON.
121. EBENEZER PARSONS.
96. RICHARD HART.
97. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
98. WILLIAM ROBIE, JR.
124. COFFIN D. NORRIS.
99. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
125. JOSIAH BARTLETT.
100. WILLIAM K. ATKINSON.
126. EPHRAIM DREW.
101. ISAAC WALDRON.
127. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
128. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
103. ISAAC WALDRON.
129. JAMES LAIGHTON.
130. GREENLEAF CILLEY.
105. ANDREW SIMPSON.
106. BENJAMIN DEARBORN.
107. EBENEZER SMITH.
133. NATHANIEL WHITE.
134. JONATHAN CILLEY.
135. WILLIAM HOOPER.
136. MOSES CANNEY.
137. SAMUEL SHERBURNE.
112. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
131. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
132. NATHANIEL WHITE.
108. CLEMENT JACKSON.
109. SAMUEL TENNEY.
110. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
111. MOSES CANNEY.
119. COGSWELL & PINKHAM.
122. EBENEZER SMITH.
123. ANDREW SIMPSON.
102. NATHANIEL WHITE.
104. NATHANIEL FOLSOM.
Only one house remains to perpetuate the memory of Franklin city. This was conveyed to John T. Emerson by Ballard Pinkham July 20, 1821. The bill of sale, still extant, specifies it as a " dwelling house on the Franklin Pro- priety, so called, being the house I lately lived in," etc. This house was taken up Oyster river in a gundelow and became the residence of Mr. Emerson, whose descendants still own it. It is the first house on the right side of the turnpike road, below Beard's creek.
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ERRATA.
Page 13, 2d col., line 28, for "trackt " read tract.
" 40, 1st col., line 19, for " Matthew Giles " read Matthew Williams, who, according to the early records, seems to have been a man of unfortunate propensities.
" 67, 2d col., line 30, for " Dureseme " read Duresme.
" 88, footnote, for " asigner " read a signer.
" 92, footnote, for " G. W. Tuttle " read C. W. Tuttle.
" 147, 2d col., line 39, for "A point " read A brook.
66 151, footnote, 1 Nicholas Medar appears to have been the grandson of William Follet.
" 198, 1st col., line 39, for " shore " read share.
" 213, footnote, " Union Parish" should be Parish of Unity, which is men- tioned in Humphrey Chadbourne's will of May 25, 1667.
" 225, 1st col., line 29, " above Hook Island Falls," should be below them.
The accompanying MAP OF THE LANDMARKS IN ANCIENT DOVER has been specially prepared in accordance with this work by Harry E. Hayes, A. B., B. S. of Boston, Mass .- but of Ancient Dover ancestry-a graduate of Harvard University, and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On a map of this size only the chief Landmarks, of course, could be given, but the situation of the remainder can be easily found by reference to the text.
The plan of FRANKLIN CITY has been reduced from the original plan, drawn by Benjamin Dearborn of Portsmouth.
That of the MOAT is from a drawing made about fifty years ago by an author- ized land-surveyor.
Co.
MAR. 1844 BINDERS
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