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

LANDMARK: Barne's Island, Bodge's island, Royall's cove

NAMES: CHESLEY, J.S.; HILL, Valentine; STEVENSON, THOMAS; BARNES, Capt.	
	Barnes's Island.  

	This is a little island near the eastern shore of Oyster river, 
not far above the mouth.  It now belongs to Mr. J.S. Chesley.  It is referred to
July 5, 1643, when Valentine Hill had a grant of land extending "from a 
creek over against Thomas Stevenson's, at Oyster river, that hath an island
in the mouth of it, to the head of that creek in Royall's cove," etc.  The 
present name was given it early this century by the boatmen on the river, 
who left one of their mates, nick-named "Capt. Barnes," on this island, and 
he was forced to swim ashore.  It is sometimes called Bodge's Island.
											
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