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

LANDMARKS: Bristol

NAMES: PRING, Martin; HILTON, Edward; GORGES, Sir Ferdinando; HOWES, 
Edward; WINTHROP, Gov. John; 	

	Bristol.  This name was given to the settlement at Hilton's Point 
as early as 1633, and is mentioned on an old map of 1634.  It was derived 
from the town of Bristol, England whence came the first pioneers of New 
Hampshire.  The explorers of the Pascataqua under Martin Pring in June, 
1603, were sent over by the enterprising merchants of Bristol.  The Hilton 
Point settlement of 1623 was also under their patronage.  And they formed 
the greater part of the Plymouth Company, from whom Edward Hilton obtained 
his patent of 1630, one of the promoters of which ws Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 
who had a house at Bristol.  "The Bristol men's plantation in Piscataqua" 
is mentioned March 25, 1633, in a letter from Edward Howes of London to 
Gov. John Winthrop of Massachusetts.  The situation of Dover Point and Neck
is not unlike that of Bristol, Eng., which stands on the ridge of a 
peninsula between the Avon and the Frome, and connected with the rest of 
Gloucestershire by a neck of land.	
											
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