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


LANDMARKS: Drew's Hill	

NAMES: DREW, John; LAIGHTON, John; HODGDON, Shadrach; BECK, Henry; LAYTON,
 	Thomas; 

	Drew's Hill.  This is a steep hill in the Back River district, about a
mile below Sawyer's bridge across the Bellamy.  Along the upper side of
this hill runs the old mast road from Wingate's Slip (now Ford's Landing) 
to Madbury.  The name is derived from John Drew, who acquired several of the
twenty-acre lots on the west side of Back river, granted in 1642.  His land
here is mentioned Nov. 22, 1698, when John Laighton of Rochester sold
Shadrach Hodgdon 20 acres on the west side of Back river, where said
Laighton had built a house in which he then lived, bounded northeasterly 
by Back river, S.E. by Hodgdon's land, S.W. by Drew's land, and north 
westerely by the highway "from mast bridge to ye river, at a place called 
ye Slip"--being lot No. 21, granted Henry Beck in 1642, and laid out to
Thomas Layton, his successor.						

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