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


LANDMARK: Beaver Brook, Beaver Pond, Beaver Pond Meadow, 

NAMES: THOMAS, James; SMITH, Ebenezer; SMITH, John; ROSE, Roger; 
	DAVIS, Ephraim; SIAS, John; KENERSON, Mr.; LANG, B. F.; 
	DAVIS, Obadiah; 	

	Beaver pond is mentioned March 6, 1729-30, when ten acres of swamp, 
granted to James Thomas in 1701, "up above Little river, at a place called 
Beaver Pound," were laid out to Ebenezer Smith.  And three score acres of 
upland and meadow, granted to Roger rose, were laid out to John Smith May 
13, 1726, beginninng at a white ash tree on the south side of "a meadow call-
ed the bever Pond medow;'  thence running N.W. by N. 60 rods, to a maple; 
then S.W. by W. 22 rods, "where the two brooks meet in the medow," etc.   
	Beaver pond, formed by the over flow of the beaver dam below, is no 
longer to be seen, but the meadow where it stood is in the south-western part 
of Lee, between the site of Fox Garrison and North river.
	This meadow seems to have been acquired last century by Ephraim Davis 
and John Sias.  It now belongs to Mr. Kenerson and Mr. B.F. Lang.  It was 
drained by Beaver brook, which was the outlet of the pond.  The beaver dam 
was on this brook, about ten rods from the old Sias house.  A spring, about
30 rods from the house is still called the Sias spring.                   
	Two brooks are mentioned above.  One of them is now dry most of the 
year, and has no name.  The other is Beaver brook, which flows from the 
meadow to the boundary line of Lee and Nottingham, where it receives Davis's
brook, that rises back of Mr. Obadiah Davis's hous.  It hen runs half a mile
northerly--contrary to the direction of the other brooks in this vicinity.
         									
PG 17-18




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