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

LANDMARKS: Bellamy Falls and Mills, Hall's mills, Sawyer's mills, 
	Demerit's Mill

NAMES: AUSTON, Elijah; WENDELL, Isaac; GREAT FALLS MANUFACTURING, CO.; 
	PIERCE, Israel; YOUNG, Jonathan; DEMERIT, Ely; 

	Bellamy Falls and Mills.  The first falls in the Bellamy river are at 
the outlet of Swayne's pond in Barrington, where a reservoir dam was erected 
for the benefit of sawyer's mills in 1863-4, and enlarged in 1881.  The 
land here was conveyed by Elijah Austin to Isaac Wendell Oct. 28, 1823, for
the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, which secured all the water powers 
on the Bellamy in 1823-24, now controlled by the proprietors of Sawyer's mills.                    
	Just below the reservoir dam are Hall's mills, consisting of a saw-
mill on the lower side, run by water power, and a steam mill on the other 
side for axe handles, etc.  About a mile below are Mr. Israel Pierce's saw-
mill and grist-mill, which formerly belonged to Jonathan Young.  
	These mills are in Barrington.  The uppermost mill within the limits 
of ancient Dover stood at Bellamy Hook, in Madbury, where a dam was built 
by Ely Demerit in 1719.  This mill is now gone.  (See Demerit's Mill.)	
											

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