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��Localities in Ancient Dover.

��Heard's Garrison. Capt. John Heard's garrison, which was success- fully defended in the Indian massacre of Cochecho on June 28, 1G89, was on the opposite side of the "cartway" leading past the Great Hill. The hill on which it stood is at the foot of the Great Hill, and directly west of the same. The "cartway" is the present Garrison Hill road.

Hekoo's Cove. So called in 1664, and was in Great Bay.

Herod's Point. A point of land, so called as early as 1650, in Dea. John Dam's grant, extending in Great Bay on its south side.

Herod's Wigwam. There was an Indian named Herod who had a wig- wam on a point of land of same name, in Great Bay, in IG.oO. The Dam grant mentions botli the point and the

��wigwam

��HiCKs's Hill. See Mahorimet's hill.

Hilton's Point. The point of land at the extremity of Dover Neck, named from Edward Hilton, where the settlement was made in 1623, and which settlement took the name of Dover in 1639. The Indian name of the point was Wecanacohunt, some- times called Wecohamet and Winni- chahannat. Hilton's patent calls it Wecanacohunt. It is now called Do- ver Point.

Hogstye Cove. So called as early as 1652, and it was the west end of the southern boundary of Dover, now of Newington, on Great Bay.

Hogstye Point. A point of land in Newington, so called as early as 1656.

Hooks. A remarkable turn in Belloman's Bank river, just below the entrance of the Mallego, and so called as early as 1694. The name was also given to a remarkable turn in Laraper-

��eel river, just below Wadleigh's falls ; it is in the present town of Lee.

Hook Mills. There are two hook mills named in the land grants. One was at the hook of the Lampereel river, near Wadleigh's falls, and one near the hook of the Belloman's Bank river. The hook mill on Bellamy river was mentioned as early as 1729.

Hope Hood's Point. A point of land thus named as early as 1694, on the north side of the "Three Creeks," on the western side of Back River. Tradition says Hope Hood, a Saga- more and famous Indian chief, was buried there. Hope Hood (alias Wa- howah), with three other Indians, sold land on January 3, 1687, to Peter Cof- fin, of Dover, and they called them- selves in the conveyance the native proprietors. The deed is recorded at Exeter. In the French and Indian massacre at Salmon Falls, on March 18, 1690, Hope Hood had twenty-five Indians under him, and was allied to a party of twenty-seven French under Sienr Hertel. Thirty settlers were killed and fifty-four captured. Hope Hood was killed (says Mather) in 1690, and the same writer speaks of him as "that memorable tygre, Hope Hood." This point with land adja- cent was granted to John Tuttle in 1642, and remained in possession of the family till about 1870. White- house's map in 1834 erroneously calls it Hopewood's Point.

HucKiNs's Garrison, in Oyster River parish, east of the Woodman garrison, was destroyed by the Ind- ians, and twenty-one or twenty-two people massacred, in August, 1689.

Huckleberry Hill. The name given as early as 1658, and which is still retained, to a liill on the Dover

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