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

LANDMARKS: Betel's Point, Ragg's Pt., Jeffry Ragg's Point, 

NAMES: RAWLINS, James; RAWLINS, Rebeck; RAWLINS, Deborah, DOWNING, 
Josiah; DOWNING, Capt. John; RAWLINGS, Samuel; BATTISHALL, Jonathan; 	

	Betel's Point, otherwise Beetle's.  This name is given to Ragg's Pt.,
on the Newington shore of the Long Reach, March 15, 1731-2, when James 
Rawlins and "Rebeck," his mother, and Deborah, his wife, conveyed to Josiah
Downing a tract of land by ye main river at a certain Point commonly called
or known by ye name of Beetle's Point or Ragg's Point, between ye land of 
Capt. John Downing and ye land of Samuel Rawlings, being the whole breadth 
of James Rawlins' land fronting on the salt water, running up from ye water 
side into the land of said James, and carrying the whole breadth upward 
until three acres be accomplished.  When this land was conveyed to Jonathan 
Battishall by Josiah Downing, June 25, 1737, the line began "at the main 
river at Betel's Point or Ragg's Point."					

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LANDMARKS: Betel's Point, Ragg's Point, Jeffry Ragg's Point	

NAMES: DOWNING, Joshua; MENDUM, Nathaniel; BATTESHALL, Jon; ROWLINGS, Sam; 
	DOWNING, Richard; TIBBETTS, Capt. Thomas; RAGG, Jeffry;

	Joshua Downing conveyed to Nathaniel Mendum of Portsmouth, June 12, 
1744, a tract of 50 acres in Newington, bounded easterly by the Pascataqua 
river, southerly by ye lands of Jona Batteshall and Saml Rowlings, decd, 
westerly by ye road yt leads to Bloody Point, and northerly by the land of
 Richard Downing.                      
Capt. Thos Tibbetts of Dover (aged 88 years) testified about 1750 that 
ever since his remembrance the Point of land where Jonathan Battishal's 
dwelling-house then stood in Newington was commonly called and known by 
the name of Jeffry Ragg's Point.(N.H. Town Papers, XII:  715.)                    
	Betel's point was on the shore of the Rollins land, just below Patt-
erson's lane.  The name is apparently a contraction of Battishall.  
(See Ragg's Point.)							

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