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

LANDMARKS: Cutt's Hill

NAMES: BURNHAM, Col. Joseph; CUTT, John; DOUTIE, Thomas; DOUGHTY, Thomas; 
	ROBERTS, William; WILLIAMS, William; CUTT, Samuel; MATHES. H.A.; 
	DISRAELI, Benjamin; 	

	Cutt's Hill.  This hill is on the road to Durham Point, just below 
the house of the late Col. Joseph Burnham.  On the south side of it is 
Cutt's spring, a source of excellent water.  Here is the land purchased 
over two hundred years ago by John Cutt or Cutts of Portsmouth, first pres-
ident of New Hampshire.  Thomas Doutie (written "Doughty" in President 
Cutt's will), "resident at Oyster River, " sold John Cutt, of Portsmouth, 
Oct. 1657, land, marsh, dwelling-house, etc., bought of William Roberts, 
who was then in possession thereof.  This farm and half of the "plantation"
near it, which President Cutt bought of William Williams, were bequeathed 
to his son Samuel, and now belong in part if not wholly, to the heirs of 
Col. Burnham, and the heirs of H.A. Mathes.  the name is now generally 
written Cutts.                    
	The highway to Durham Point formerly led around Cutt's hill to avoid 
its steepness, but was finally run directly across it, by way of a short 
cut.  "What name can be more unluckily short?"  says Benjamin Disraeli, 
speaking of John Cuts, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to receive a haughty
ambassador from Spain, who, accustomed to the long sonorous names of 
Spanish dignitaries, considered the brevity of Cuts' name a just ground 
of complaint.								
	
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