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

LANDMARKS: Cochecho

NAMES: ORDWAY, James; WALDRON, Major; COFFIN, Peter; TUTTLE, Judge John; 
	HEARD, Samuel; ROOKES, Richard; ROBERTS, Thomas; ROBERTS, Elizabeth; 
	ROBERTS, Benjamin; WALDRON, Thomas Westbrook; 

	Cochecho.  This name was for a long time given to the settlement 
around the lowest falls in the Cochecho river, in order to distinguish it 
from the settlement on Dover Neck.  James Ordway testified in 1705 that 
sixty years previous, Major Waldron with some others began the plantation 
called Cochecho, and two or three years later built a saw-mill and cornmill
there.  (Dr. Quint's ed. of Pike's Journal, p. 10, foot-note.) "Peter 
Coffin of Cochecha, in the township of Dover," is mentioned Ap. 1, 1673.  
(See Muchadoe.) "Lands and tenements in Cochecho, Dover," are mentioned 
Oct 8, 1683.  (N.H. Prov. Pap., 1:468) "The road which leads to Cochecha" 
is mentined in the will of Judge John Tuttle, Dec. 28, 1717.  "Samuel Heard 
of Chochecho, in the township of Dover," Aug. 13, 1731, conveyed to Richard 
Rookes of "the parish of Sumersworth," schoolmaster, 30 acres of upland and
swamp "in ye parish of Cochecho aforesd," on the S.E. side of the road 
from Salmon falls to the Cochecho boom.  Thomas Roberts and Elizabeth con-
veyed to Benjamin Roberts, Jan 3, 1734-5, 30 acres of land, bounded east by
"ye highway yt runs up to Cochecho, a place in Dover, so called."  "The 
meeting-house at Cochecho in Dover is mentioned May 22, 1754 (N.H. Town 
Pap. XI:524).                        
	"Thomas Westbrook Waldron's mills at Cochecho, below ye lower falls,"
 are mentioned Jan 22, 1770. (Ibid., p. 534.)  The Cochecho settlement is 
now the city proper of Dover.	 					

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