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 Localities in Ancient Dover.

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��owned by Gerrish P. Drew, is on the west side of the Buck River road, and is in a very dilapidated state.

Moot, Mookt, or Moet. Bad spelling for moat, and so called as early as 1656 from its resemblance to the moat or ditch which surrounded old castles. It was applied to a mo- rass in Oyster River parish on the Great Bay, and served to mark the bounds of certain land grants. "•The little brook that cometh out of the mooet" is mentioned.

Mount Sorrowful. So called in 1702, when Paul Wentworth had a grant of land there.

'•MucH-A-DOE." The road leading from Dover to " Much-a-doe" is men- tioned in a conveyance in 1672. Muchado is a hill in Barrington, and the road referred to was, of course, the Tole-End road.

Narrows (The). The narrow channel in Cochecho river, about one mile below the first falls. See Cam- pin's Rocks.

Neeuom's Point. This was so called as early as 1674, and was on Great Bay in Oyster River parish. Nicholas Needham was a member of the Exeter combination in 1638, and the point must have been named for him.

Newichawannock. The Indian name of the falls where the Berwick ("Great Works") river enters the (now) Newichawannock river. But the settlers applied the name to the stream from Quamphagan (Salmon Falls) to Hilton's Point, where it flows into the Pascataqua river; and this is the Newichawannock of to-day. The settlers also called it the "Fore River." See Quamphagan and Fore River.

��Newtown. So called as early as 16i)4, and the name is retained to this day. It is in the present town of Lee, about three miles north-west of Hicks's hil,l.

Nock's Marsh. The grant of land to Thomas Nock in 1659, lying on the north side of Belloman's Bank river, about one mile above tide water. In 1659 William Ilackett had thirty acres of land "between the path that led from Belloman's Bank to Cochecho," on the south, with the freshitt (river) on the west, and the land of Thomas Nock on the north. The spelling has been changed to Knox marsh by those who have for- gotten the name of the original set- tler.

Northam. When the Rev. Thomas Larkham, formerly of Northam, Eng- land, came in 1640 to the pastorate of the First Church, Dover, the set- tlers changed the name of the town from Dover to Northam ; but when Rev. Mr. Larkham left the town in 1641, the former name of Dover was again adopted.

Otis's Garrison. Richard Otis's garrison, which was destroyed on June 28, 1689, in the Indian massacre at Cochecho, stood on the west side of Central avenue on the top of the hill, which is half way from the falls of Cochecho to the "Great Hill." Drake's Book of the Indians and the Otis Genealogy erroneously place the garrison on the east side of (now) Central Avenue. Otis's house in 1655 was on the east side of " the cart- wa}^" now Central Avenue ; but the land grant was resurveyed to Rich- ard Waldrou after the desolation of Cochecho, and they confirm the tra- dition that the garrison of Otis in

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