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 Localities in Ancient Dover

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��LOCALITIES IN ANCIENT DOVER.— Part II.

��By John R. Ham, M. D.

��Goat Island. The large island in Pascataqiui river, and so called as early as 1652, Ivins; a little to the west of the mouth of Back river, and jnst below the month of Little Bay, near to the Durham shore. It was granted in 1652 to Lieut. William Pomfrett, and he conveyed it as a gift to his grandson AVilliam, the son of Deacon John Dame. When the Pascataqua bridge was built, in 1794, from Durham to Newington, the road crossed this island.

Goddard's Cukek. So called as early as IGGO ; it was the first creek eastward of Lamprey river, in Dur- ham, and flows into Great Bay. It divided in part the counties of Rock- ingham and Strafford, until 1870, when the line was set over, and a slice of Strafford county was cut off.

Great Bay (The). The body of water formed by the junction of the Squamscot, Lamprey, and Oyster rivers, and which at the Little Bay becomes the Pascataqua river. The settlers called it the Bay of Pascat- aquack.

Great Hill (The). The name which was given as early as 1652, to what in 1659 was called ''The Coche- cho Great Hill," which from 1700 to 1834 was called Varney's hill, and which since 1834 has, commonly but erroneously, been called Garrison hill. Whitehouse's map of Dover in 1834 calls it Varney's hill.

Great Pond (The). The name which as early as 1650 was given to the pond, which in 1674 was called Cochecho pond. The latter name is

��retained on Dover maps to this day ; but it is commonly called Willand's pond.

Greenland. So called as early as 1696 in land grants, viz., "on the road leading to Greenland." It is the town of that name.

Gulf (The). The name given as early as 1656, to a swell in Cochecho river, just below the head of tide wa- ter, and which is retained to this day.

Half Way Swamp (The). The swamp, so called as early as 1652, lying south and west of Garrison hill, south of Starbuck's brook, and on the left side of the "Cartway" which leads from the falls of the river to the " Great Cochecho Fresh Marsh," which lay just to the north of Garrison hill. It was half-way from the falls to the last named marsh, and the " Cartway " of 1652 is the present Gar- rison Hill road.

Hartford's Ferry. In 1717, Nich- olas Hartford opened a ferry between Beck's Slip on Dover Neck and Kit- tery.

Hayes's Garrison. In 1812 the garrison of Lieut. Jonathan Hayes, at the junction of the Tole End road and the cross road that runs to the second falls of the Cochecho, and at the foot of WinKley's hill, was pulled down. Lieut. Jonathan Hayes was born Apr. 17, 1732 and died Apr. 15, 1787.

Haystack (The). So called in Jonas Binn's grant in 1654. It was near Branson's creeks on the west side of Oyster river, near the mouth of the river. What was it?

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