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

LANDMARK:Beech Hill, Indian graves, 

NAMES: CHESLEY, Philip; WOODMAN, Capt. John; WOODMAN, John; WOODMAN Jonathan;
WOODMAN, Moses Gilman; 		
	
	Beech Hill.  This hill is on the confines of Durham, Lee, and Madbury.
It is mentioned the 4th, 9 mo., 1652, when Philip Chesley had a grant of 100
acres, one half of which was laid out in 1661 "att a place called the 
'Indian graves', on the west side of beach hill."  Twelve score acres of 
land were granted Capt. John Woodman and his sons, John and Jonathan, March
19, 1693-4, "on ye south side of beach Hill and so down to the swamp."  
(Follet's Swamp.)  
	Part of this land is now owned by Mr. Moses Gilman Woodman, a direct 
descendant of Capt. John Woodman.                   
	 When Lee was separated from Durham, Jan 17, 1766, the line of divi-
sion began at Paul Chesley's house at Beech hill.  When the bounds were 
perambulated in 1798, the line began at the place "where the house of Paul
Chesley stood."                    
	The name of Beech Hill is still retained, though the beech trees from 
which it was no doubt derived have all disappeared.	      	

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