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

LANDMARKS:	Crummit's Creek

NAMES: EDGERLY, John; CROMMET, Jacob; LEVIUS, Peter; PEIRCE, John; CROMMET,
	 Jacob; KENT family; KENT, James; CROMWELL, Philip; CROMWELL, Daniel; CAREL,
	 Timothy; CROMWELL, Samuel; 
 	

	Crummit's Creek, otherwise Crommet's.  This name has been given for a 
hundred years, or more, to the inlet from Great Bay which divides the 
Durham Point district from Lubberland.  In early times it was variously 
called Great Creek, Branson's creek, Long creek, and finally Mathews' or 
Mathes's creek, which name it chiefly bore from 1653 till the latter part 
of the eighteenth century.  It is called "Sturgeon creek" on Sandford & 
Everts' county atlas of 1871, but for this name there is no warrant 
whatever.  It is otherwise called in the Durham records of March 21, 
1746-7, when a petition was made for a new road by John Edgerly's "to the 
creek called the Mill creek."  This name was derived from Mathes's mill, 
afterwards Crummit's mill, which stood at the head of tide water.  
"Crummit's mill Cove" is mentioned in 1825.  (See Mathew's Neck.)  
and Crummit's mill-creek bridge is mentioned in the Durham records of 
1835.  the name of Crummit's creek was derived from Jacob Crommet, to 
whom Peter Levius conveyed, Feb 14, 1772, a farm of 140 acres adjacent 
to his creek, "begining at eh southerly end of the mill dam thereon, 
thence running down the creek 9 rods, thence north 26 deg. E. 13 rods, 
across said creek to a stone, which is an old Monument," etc.  John Peirce 
of Portsmouth, Jan 10, 1778, conveyed to Jacob Crommet 35 acres, "set off 
by execution as the estate of Peter Levius, Esq., beginning at a rock at 
the N.W. corner of the mill, thence running down the creek S. 55 deg. E. 8 
rods," etc., being part of the farm then occupied by said Jacob Crommet.¹"   
	The Crummit lands and mill were acquired by the Kent family, 
by intermarriage.  the mill is no longer in operation, but the water priv-
ilege is now owned by Mr. James Kent.   
      The name of Crummit is said to be a corruption of Cromwell, and the 
family claim relationship with the great Protector.  Philip Cromwell was 
taxed in Dover as early as 1657, and Daniel in 1662.  One share in the ox 
pasture on Dover Neck was conveyed to Timothy Carel Dec. 16, 1709, by 
"Samuel Cromwell" who calls himself in the deed "the heir and successor of 
Phillip Cromwell of Dover," to whom it had been granted.  The confusion 
occasioned by the various ways of writing this name is shown by a letter 
from the army commissary in 1780 concerning a soldier from Durham, called 
James Crummett, Cromel, or Cromwell.  (N.H. State Pap., 17: 367.)	
											

¹An old newspaper of June 14, 1800, states that Jacob Crummet, returning
 from a walk in his field, fell down at his door and expired instantly.	

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