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 Marsh

NAMES: EMERY, Anthony; TEDDER, Stephen; WENTWORTH, William; RICKER, George;
	 COFFIN, Peter; RICKER, Maturin;

	Cochecho Marsh.  This marsh now for the most part drained, lay at the
 upper side of Garrison Hill, and extended into the present town of Rollins-
ford.  It is otherwise called the Great Cochecho Marsh and the Great Fresh 
Marsh.  It is mentioned as early as May 2, 1642, when lots of six acres 
therein were granted to Anthony Emery and Stephen Tedder.  Twenty lots of 
the same size were granted to other Dover settlers June 16, 1648.  A path 
led to this marsh as early as 1648, called the "cartway," which is the 
present Garrison Hill road.  This marsh is mentioned June 17, 1677, whe Wm.
Wentworth conveyed to George Ricker "a Piece of marsh and swamp-land near 
Cochecho, near ye lower part of ye marsh commonly called Cochecho Marsh, 
the lower end butting upon ye northern side of ye brook which doth run out 
of ye sd marsh upon a little pond by ye sd brook."  The only brook that 
answers to this description is the Styx, which flows through the marsh in 
the vicinity of No-Bottom pond.  Faggoty brook also once drained the 
neighboring marshes, now for the most part dried up.                      
	Peter Coffin conveyed to Maturin Ricker, Dec. 26, 1682, 12 acres at 
the lower end of the marsh commonly called Cochecha marsh in Dover, bounded
S. by a brook of water which issues out of said marsh, and N.E. by a small
stream of water which doth empty itself into said brook. A final division 
of Cochecho marsh was made by a vote of the town Apr. 16, 1722.		
										
PG 48-49





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