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


LANDMARKS:	Downing's Plains

NAMES:  DOWNING, John; DOWNING, Richard; DOWNING, Bartholomew; HART, 
	Richard D.; 	

	Downing's Plains.  So called from John Downing, who acquired land in 
the Pitch-Pine plains of Newington Feb. 14, 1723-4 (See the Gore.)  Richard
Downing's land in the upper Pitch-Pine plains of Newington is mentioned in
1770.  (See Pitch-Pine Plains.)  and Feb. 27, 1799, Bartholomew Downing and
Richard D. Hart advertised for sale "100 acres of corn land on Downing's 
Plain in Newington."							

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