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 Localities in Ancient Dover. 9

Neck roivd. It is the long liill which Indigo Hill. A hill in Soiners-

one ascends before reaching the iiigli- worth, about three fourths of a mile

est elevation on the neck. below Great Falls, and so called as

Huckleberry Swamp. It was the early as 1*J8. A road was laid out Hilton Point swamp, and was laid in 1720 by the town of Dover, "■ be- out in 1652 as the Ox Pasture. tween Quamphegan and Indigo Hill

Indian Brook. The brook which and beyond into the common." This

flows into Cochecho river on the east- road ran directly over Indigo hill,

ern side, and next above the fourth and is now closed up at that point,

falls of the same. The name was The new road between Salmon Falls

used as early as 1701 (Varney grant),, and Great trails leaves the hill on the

and its origin is unknown. It crosses risfht hand side between the road and

the " Scatterwit" road, and runs the river.

through the farm of Alderman Na- Johnson's Creek. This name was

thaniel Home. given as early as 1652 to a brook

Indian Corn Ground. A tract of which flows into Oyster river on the

land lying between Tole End and eastern side and next above Bun-

Barbadoes pond, and thus called as ker's creek. Thomas Johnson had a

early as 161J3, from which the settlers land grant there, and the stream per-

had laud grants from time to time, petuates his name.

Probably used by the Indians for cul- Knight's Ferry. The old ferry

tivating their corn prior to the settle- tween Dover Point and Bloody Point,

ment. Lampereel River. So called as

Indian Graves. A locality on the early as 1650, when Chris. Lawson west end of Beach hill, in the north- and George Barlow bad permission east corner of the town of Durham, from the town of Exeter to set up a and so called as early as 1652. In saw-mill at Lampereel river, " a little that year Philip Chesley had a grant above the wigwams ;" but prior to of land from the town containing this date, in 1647, it was called Cam- seventy-eight acres, " att y*" Indian pron river, and Elders Starbuck and Graves," and in 1715 the Lot Layers Nutter of the Dover church had saw- resurveyed it, and described the mills on the first falls, where the cot- bounds as " beginning att the Indian ton mills of Newmarket now stand. Graves, att Beach Hill, commonly so The Indian name of the first falls called." was Pascassick, sometimes written

Another Indian burial-ground, ac- Piscassick, and again Puscassick.

cording to a land grant in 1659 to One of the western branches is now

Benjamin Hull, was on the south-west called the Piscassick. The stream is

side of Lampereel river, not far west now called Lamprey river,

of a mill that stood on the falls, and Little John's Creek. Little John

exactly on the town line between was an Indian, and his name was

Dover and Exeter, that is, on the given as early as 1654 to the only

town line between the towns of Dur- brook that crosses the Dover Neck

ham and Newmarket, as it existed road which requires a bridge. It is

till 1870. below the Wiugate farm, and is about

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