Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 

LANDMARK: Ash Swamp, Tole End, Nock's Marsh, 
          Cochecho Log Swamp, Barbadoes, Peter's Haise, 
	
NAMES:  HAISE, John; HODGDON, Israel; THOMPSON, 	
	Wm; NOCK, Thomas; WINGATE, Moses; HANSON, 	
	Nathaniel; EVANS, Edward; EVANS, Robert; MEDER, 	
	Joseph; WENTWORTH, Paul; JONES, Joseph; 
	THOMPSON, John; DAVIS, Moses; NUTTER, Anthony; 	
	GRAY, John; STEVENS, Samuel JAMES; CLARK, James 	
	& Sarah
	
Ash Swamp.  Mentioned March 19, 1693-4, when 20 acres
of land "between Tole End and Ash Swamp" were granted 
to John Haise.  Israel Hodgdon's land at Ash swamp, 
originally granted to William Thompson, above Nock's 
marsh, is mentioned Feb 22, 1720, as beginning at the 
river (Bellamy), leaving a highway four rods wide 
between Nock's old bound and Thompson's fifty acres.
This swamp is called Cochecho log swamp, March 17, 
1658-9, when William Thompson's fifty acre grant was 
laid out to him beyond it, with Thomas Nock's land on 
the south-east, and Bellamies Bank freshet on the 
south-west. Moses Wingate, Sept 12, 1752, bought of 
Nathaniel Hanson twenty acres in "Cochecho swamp or Ash 
Swamp, " which land Hanson had by inheritance.  Edward 
Evan's grant of 30 acres of swamp land "near bellemies
bank pond, between the two rivers," June 23, 1701, was 
laid out in Ash swamp, beginning at "an asp tree on the 
south side of barbadus (Barbadoes) way.   Robert Evans 
of Mendon, Mass., sold Joseph Meder of Dover, June 5, 
1711, sixty acres of land granted his father, Robert 
Evans, Sr., in Cochecho swamp, on the south side of the 
way that goeth to a place commonly called Barbadoes. 
This land was conveyed to John Hanson in 1713.  Nock's 
marsh, on the western side of Dover, is a part of the 
old Cochecho or Ash swamp.   Another Ash swamp, between 
the Cochecho and Salmon Falls rivers, is mentioned March
23, 1702, when Paul Wentworth had a grant of 80 acres 
there.  An Ash swamp in the present town of Lee is 
spoken of July 19, 1721, when ten acres were laid out to
Joseph Jones "at a place called the

Ash swamp, above Whelrit's pond," on the south side of 
John Thompson and Moses Davis's land.  This was part of 
a grant to Anthony Nutter in 1694.  James and Sarah 
Clark of Biddeford (Me.), Nov 9, 1741, conveyed to 
Jonathan Thompson 60 acres in the town of Durham, "at a
place commonly called ye Ash swamp,"-- half of a 
six-score acre grant which said Clark bought of Moses 
Davis, Jr., formerly of Oyster River,  deceased.  This
tract began at a pitch pine tree on the south side of
the highway that leads by Peter's Oven.           


John Gray¹ sold Samuel James Stevens, March 2, 1747-8, a
tract of land in Durham, on the north side of Ash swamp. 
This land was sold Aug 22, 1750, to Jonathan Thompson, 
Jr., whose descendants still own it.  It is on
the upper side of Little river, between Lee Hill and 
Nottingham.  A large swamp in South Newmarket is still 
known as Ash Swamp.                                    
                                                                                                                             

¹John and George Gray are mentioned as trained soldiers on the south side of Oyster river, in
 1732.	

pg. 8-9



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