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

LANDMARKS: Blind Wills Neck	

NAMES:  BLIND, Will;  WALDRON, Major; TIBBETS, Samuel; TIBBETS, Ichabod; 
	YOUNG, Jonathan; HANSON, HUMPHREY; HANSON, Ephraim; SMITH, John

	Blind Will's Neck.  This is a point of land in the south-west part of 
Rochester, near the Dover line, formed by the junction of the Cochecho 
and Isinglass rivers.  It was here that a friendly Indian sagamore named 
Blind Will was killed in March, 1677, having been sent with a scouting-party
by Major Waldron to watch the movements of some hostile Indians, who fell 
suddenly upon the party and killed the greater part.  This neck is men-
tioned March 17, 1736, when Samuel Tibbets conveyed to his son Ichabod a 
part of his second division in Rochester, "at a place called Blind Will's 
Neck, lying on ye S.W. of a marsh commonly called Long marsh."  And again 
Dec. 3, 1745, when Jonathan Young of Dover conveyed to his son Jonathan a 
tract of land "at Blind Will's Neck, at or near two marshes called Long 
marsh and Great Marsh."  Humphrey Hanson conveyed to his brother Ephraim, 
Oct. 8, 1765, "three acres at Blind Will's Neck, so called, in Rochester, 
on ye very S.E. point of said Neck, nearly opposite the mouth of Blackwater
brook, joining partly to the Isinglass portion of the river, and partly to
the Squommonogonock branch," being the land he purchased of John Smith Ap.
27, 1739.										

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