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 Point

NAMES: POMFRETT, William; ROBERTS, John; AUSTIN, Joseph; CANNEY, Thomas; 
	CANNEY, Joseph; WALDRON, Richard; MASON, Benjamin;  FFURBER, William;
	WENTWORTH, William; LANGSTAR, Henry; KENNEY, Thomas; 	

	Cochecho Point.  This point is at the junction of the Cochecho and 
Newichawannock rivers.  It was granted to Wm. Pomfrett the 30th, 6 mo., 1643.
His grant is described as a neck of land between the mouth of Cochecha 
river and Nechewanick river, with the marsh to the first narrow." (N.H. 
Prov. Pap., 9:153-4.) The name of Cochecho Point seems also to have comprised 
the lands above Pomfrett's grant.  John Roberts conveyed to Joseph Austin, 
July 7, 1658, all his upland "commonly called and known by the name of 
cochecho poynt in Piscataq river."  Thomas Canney, Oct. 6, 1670, conveyed 
to his son Joseph one undivided eighth of Cochecho Point, bounded by the 
Cochecho and Newichawannock rivers, and the Newichawannock path from Fresh 
creek to St. Alban's cove.  Richard Waldron of Portsmouth, July 24, 1729, 
conveyed to Benjn Mason of Dover, one half of a neck of land in Dover, 
granted ye 10 mo., 5th day, 1652, to his father Capt. Richard Waldron, Wm. 
Ffurber, Wm. Wentworth, Henry Langstar, and Thomas Kenny, being the whole 
neck of land from St. Alban's cove to ye head of  Fresh creek, and so to 
Cochecho point, except a former grant to Wm. Pomfrett, one half of which 
grant, and of all privileges, belonged to Capt. Waldron.
	After the township of Rollinsford was incorporated, this point was 
often called Rollinsford Point, but it has resumed its ancient name since 
its re-conveyance to the township of Dover.				

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