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

LANDMARK: Beck's Point and Slip, Harford's ferry, 

NAMES: PARKER, Wm; HARFORD, Nicholas; HAINES, Samuel; 
	Beck's Point and Slip.  Beck's Slip was a landing-place at Beck's 
point, on Fore river.  This point is mentioned July 2, 1718, when Wm. Parker,
of Portsmouth, conveyed to Nicholas Harford a dwelling-house and four acres 
of land on Dover Neck, beginning at a landing-place commonly called Beck's 
point, and extending west by the highway side to ye high street, then south
 by ye street to Samuel Haines' land, thence east by Haines' land down to 
ye fore river.                    
	A road was laid out March 16, 1721-22, from high street to Beck's slip,
no doubt to facilitate access to Harford's ferry, which Nicholas Harford in
1717 had been licensed to run from this slip to Kittery -- that is, to the
opposite shore; for Kittery then extended up the Newichawannock, and 
included the present town of Eliot and the Berwicks.			

PG 18




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