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



LANDMARKS: Branson's Creek

NAMES: DREW, William; WILLIE, Thomas; DREW, Francis; ADAMS, Charles; 
	KENT, Joseph; NOCK, Henry; NOCK, Sarah; BINE, Jonas; WEBB, George; 
	BICKFORD, John; HILL, John; SMYTHE, George; KENT, Oliver; 
	DREW, Thomas; BRANSON, George; ALTE, John; YORK, Richard; 
	
	Branson's Creek.  Mentioned the 10th, 8 mo., 1653, when Wm. Drew had 
a grant of 60 acres of upland on the north side of Branson's creek, joining
his marsh next Thomas Willie's land.  He afterwards assigned this land to 
his son, Francis Drew.                    
	Charles Adams had a neck of land granted him in 1656, on the south 
side of Branson's creek bounded from the western branch upon a south line 
to the Great Bay.  This land was conveyed to Joseph Kent Feb 15, 1711-12, 
by Henry Nock and his wife Sarah, daughter of Charles Adams.  Jonas Bine 
had an "out lot" in 1654, on the S.W. side of Branson's Creek, next Charles
Adams' lot, and joining George Webb's,¹ right over against a place called 
the hay stack.  He sold this land to John Bickford and John Hill in 1668.  
It is called "Brand's Krick," Oct. 9, 1691, when Francis Drew conveyed to 
Thomas Drew all his right to 60 acres belonging to the estate of his father, 
Wm. Drew, late of Dover, deceased.
	The name of this creek was derived from Geo. Branson, whose 
name is on the Dover rate-list of 1648.  He died before July 2, 1657, on 
which day certain jurymen were appointed, under oath, to inquire into the 
cause of his death.  John Alte, who seems to have been the foreman, testi-
fied "that Branson went well out of his house, and he (Alte) went after 
him, and found Branson lying on the ground, crying that the bull had killed 
him, with one wound up towards his shoulders, and another against the 
small of his back, with his members all brook."  (County Records, Exeter.)
      John Alt and Richard York were appointed administrators of Branson's 
estate July 2, 1657.  Branson's creek is on the Durham shore of the Great 
Bay, and is now known as Crummit's creek.  (See Long Creek.)	
										

¹George Smythe, administrator of the estate of Geo. Web, deceased, conveyed
to Oliver Kente in 1651, "a messuage or tenement in Oyster River plan-
tation, formerly in the possession of sd Geo. Web, but then in the 
tenure of sd Oliver Kent, containing by estimation one acre and a half."

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