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 mills, 	 

NAMES: LEWIS, Phillip; FOLLET, Wm.; WALDRON, Major; John; GERRISH, Elizabeth; GERRISH, 
GERRISH, Timothy; GERRISH, Col. Paul; 

	Philip Lewis conveyed his quarter June 4 1657; and Wm. Follet of 
Oyster River his part, Ap. 27, 1675.  The entire mill and water privilege 
here, having been thus acquired by Major Waldron, he gave half of it as a 
marriage portion to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Gerrish, which 
gift he ratified by an indenture of Oct. 17, 1683, confirming unto John 
Gerrish of Bellamy's Bank one half of said mills, together with a moiety 
of all housings, lands, tenements, meadows, marshes, pastures, gardens, 
woods, swamps, water courses, mills, dams, head weirs, ponds, fishing, 
fowling ways, profits, privileges, rights, commonages, hereditaments, 
emoluments, and appurtenances, to him, his heirs, and assigns forever.                    
John Gerrish afterwards acquired the whole privilege.  Here stood the 
Gerrish mills of early times, near which was no doubt the Gerrish garrison.
  	These mills and the privilege were inherited by his sons, Col. Timothy 
Gerrish of Kittery, and Col. Paul Gerrish of Dover, who, Oct. 28, 1735, 
made a division of the land and water privilege left them undivided by 
their honored father, John Gerrish, Esq.  A line was drawn, beginning at a
certain rock about four rods from the southerely end of the bridge over 
Belleman's Bank river, on ye westerly side of the road ye leads over said 
bridge to Durham, thence running W. S. W. 64 rods to another marked rock, 
then S.S. W. 148 roads to a beech tree.    			

PG 23-24





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