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


LANDMARKS: Dover

NAMES: TUTTLE, C.W.;	

	Dover.  This name was given to the settlement at Hilton's Point as 
early as 1639, in not before.  It was changed to Northam in 1641, but the 
name of Dover was restored in 1642.  "A Combination for government" was
formed by the inhabitants of Dover, Oct 22, 1640, and the settlement
remained independent till its union with Massachusetts, which was 
consummated Oct. 9, 1641.  C.W. Tuttle, in his Historical papers (p. 333) 
says it is an error to give the name of "Dover Combination" to the local
form of government of 1640, because the word "Dover" does not appear in 
the document.  It was merely endorsed, "The combination for government by
ye people at Pascataq."  The name, however, is in constant use, and serves
to distinguish it from the combinations at Exeter and Strawberry Bank.
And it is appropriately so called, because it was formed by and for the
Dover settlers.  This combination was the only charter of incorporation 
Dover ever had, till it was made a city June 18, 1855.  The township of 
Dover formerly comprised, not only Dover proper, but the present townships 
of Durham, Lee, Madbury, somersworth, and Rollinsford, the greater part of 
Newington, and a portion of Greenland and Newmarket.             
	The name of Dover, in a restricted sense, was sometimes given in 
early times to the settlement on Dover Neck, by way of distinction from 
that called "Cochecho," around the lowest falls in the Cochecho river.
"The road from Dover to Cochecho" is mentioned May 5, 1718, meaning the
road from DoverPoint.  (See Cochecho.)				

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