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

LANDMARKS: Beck's Point and Slip
	
NAMES:  CUSHING, Thomas; CUSHING, Mercy; GAGE, Capt. John; ROBERTS, Joseph; 
BECK, Henry; BECK, Ann; FORD, Geo. W., HARFORD, Nicholas	
	
	Thomas Cushing of Boston, and Mercy, his wife, Aug 23, 1736, conveyed
to Capt. John Gage five acres of land, with buildings, etc., bought of 
Nicholas Harford, on the east side of Dover Neck, lying between the land of
Joseph Roberts and ye highway that leads down to ye landing-place commonly
called Beck's slip, bounded westerly by the main road over Dover Neck down
to Hilton's Point, northerly by Roberts' land, south by the highway from 
said main road to said landing-place, and easterly by Fore river, running 
from the river to the main road, including a strip four rods wide running 
along the river from said highway to the wharf on the river side, built by 
said Harford; with the privilege of the Ferry from said landing-place over 
to Kittey Shore.                    
	Beck's Point was so named from Henry Beck of the Dover Combination of 
1640.  He seems to have settled in Portsmouth.  "Henry Beck of Sagamore 
Creek in ye town of Portsmouth, planter" and Ann, his wife, are mentioned 
in the county records at Exeter, Sept. 1, 1668.¹ 
	The landing-place at Beck's slip and Harford's ferry, afterwards 
Morill's ferry, is now owned by Mr. Geo W. Ford.     
               
¹Henry Beck was the ancestor of Theodore Romeyn Beck, the author of Beck's 
Botany and several works on medical jurisprudence.	         

PG 18-19




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