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

LANDMARK:Bellamy Falls and Mills, Libbey's mill and bridge, Sawyer's bridge

NAMES: GERRISH, Capt; LIBBEY, Benjamin; LIBBEY, Enoch; PIERCE, Andrew; 
	SAWYER, Alfred I.; GREAT FALLS MANUFACTURING, CO.; MOSES, C.C.P.;
	 DAM, John; LAYTON, Thomas; POMFRETT, Wm.; BEARD, Thomas; 
	FOLLET, Wm.; LEWIS, Phillip; WALDRON, Richard;BEARD, Mary; 	

	The remaining falls in the Bellamy are below Libbey's bridge, now 
Sawyer's bridge.  They are three in number.  A grist-mill stood at the upper
 falls, near the bridge, before 1711, when the road from Lamprey river to 
Salmon Falls is mentioned as running past Field's garrison to "Capt. 
Gerrish's grist mill as ye way now goes to Cochecho."  
(N.H. Prov. Pap., 17: 710.)  
	It is again spoken of in 1735, as will be seen below.  At the beginn-
ing of this century it was owned by Benjamin Libbey.  Libbey's mill and 
bridge are often mentioned in the Dover records.  Enoch Libbey conveyed to 
Andrew Pierce, March 22, 1822, "a certain mill privilege and grist-mill 
owned and occupied by my late father Benjamin Libbey; also the whole right 
I have of erecting a dam on the southerly side of said river, on said privi-
lege, and below the same," with the understanding that any overflow or dam-
age done by erecting a dam below said privilege should be paid for.  This 
purchase was made for the Great Falls Man. Co.  The privilege here was 
leased to Alfred I. Sawyer in 1824.  He gave notice July 27, 1824, that on 
the 1st of September following, he should "carry on the business of cloth-
dressing at the place formerly known as Libbey's mills."  He also ran the 
grist-mill, and a few years later established a flannel mill.  He bought 
the rights of the Great Falls Man. Co. in 1845.    		

PG 22-23





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