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

LANDMARK:  Back River Garrison, Dam's(Dame's)Garrison, James Newt Creek, 
		Hopeshood Pt.	

NAMES:  CROSS, John; DAM, Will; BICKFORD, John; TUCKER, John; MILLER, John;
	JACKSON,Ephraim; DAM, John; UPGROVE, John; TIBBETS, Joseph; 
	NEWT, James; DAM Wm. Sr., ALLEN, Jacob; TUTTLE, James; 
	PINKHAM, Tristram	

	Back River Garrisons. There seem to have been at least five garrisons 
in the Back River district.  John Cross is mentioned as serving at "Will Dam's
garrison" from Jan 7 till Feb 6, 1695; John Bickford from May 12 till June
8, 1695; John Tucker and John Miller from Nov 4, till Dec. 5, 1695, and 
Ephraim Jackson from Dec. 5, till Jan 7, 1696. (N.H. Prov. Pap., 17: 648.)
The precise situation of this garrison is not known, but it was in the Back 
River district, apparently on the lot granted John Dam in 1642, which was 
"Number eleven," next above the lot of John Upgrove, otherwise Newgrove. 
Forty acres of land, granted to John Dam in 1656, were laid out to his son 
John Sept. 16, 1702, beginning at a white oak on the line between this land
and that of Joseph Tibbets.  A highway is mentioned between Dam's land and 
that of James Newt, which led to a landing place at the head of James Newt's
creek.  This creek is above Hopehood's point.  (See Nute's Creek.)                  
	Wm. Dam, Sr., of Dover, in consideration of the love, good-will, and 
affection he bore to his loving son William, conveyed to him, June 7, 1712,
one half of the new house he was then building, and half of the land on 
which it stood, with one third of his orchard, and also three acres of 
land bounded S. by the land of New Groue and James Newt, E. by the river,
being all his land on that side of the creek.  And Wm. Dam, Jr., that same
day, bound himself to be at one third part of the charge of moving the house
in which he then dwelt at the west end (24 ft. long and 30 ft. wide), up to 
the Logg House, and set it there.  Wm. Dam conveyed to Jacob Allen, Ap. 7, 
1724, "one half of a dwelling Logg House, set in Dover, on the westerly 
side of ye back river, which was formerly ye dwelling house of Wm. Dam, Sr.,
together with the land on which it stands, and part of ye upper orchard 
containing two rows of apple trees next said Jacob's part of ye orchard; 
also 4 1/2 acres lying in ye spruce pasture."                                                          
	James Nute of Dover conveyed to James Tuttle, Feb. 3, 1770, 28 acres 
of land on the west side of Back river, at the N.E. Corner of said Tuttle's 
other land bought of Tristram Pinkham, and running along  by said river to 
the heirs of Wm. Dam, deceased, then westerly by said Dam's land and thatch-
bed till it came to the west side of the creek, to high-water mark, and 
running across a point of land till it came to said James Tuttle's other 
land.										

PG 10-11




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