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


LANDMARKS:	Dumpling Cove

NAMES: CATTER (CARTER), Richard; LANKSTAR, Henry; DAM, John; LANGSTAR, Mary;

 	Dumpling Cove. This cove is on the Newington shore of Little Bay, at 
the lower side of Dame's Pt., now Joshua's Pt. It is mentioned the 11th, 10
mo., 1656, when Richard Catter's (Carter's) grant of 40 acres of upland in 
1652, was laid out "south of the freshett at Dompline Cove," bounded north 
by Henry Lankstar's land, and south by that of John Dam. Henry Langstar's 
grant of 200 acres in 1652 was laid out in 1659, "beginning at Doempling 
Cove in the letell Bay, and so up the freshett to the parting of it," thence
over to "the freshett that goeth into the broad cove below foxe poynt, 
thence over the mouth of the crike to a maple tree, thence to the north side
of a little swamp, thence to a Rock a little below terning Poynt, and up 
the little bay to doompline Cove."  Henry Langstar, Oct. 27, 1704 conveyed 
to his daughter Mary all his land on Little Bay, beginning at the mouth of a
creek in Broad Cove, and running up Little Bay as far as Dumpling Cove, to
the southwest side of the freshet; which land was granted said Henry 
Langstar the 9th, 5 mo. 1652.  						

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LANDMARKS:	Dumpling Cove
	
NAMES: LEVETT, Sarah; LEVETT, James; ADAMS, Joseph; LANGSTAR, Henry; 
	COLEMAN, Eleazar; DAM, John; DAME, Joseph;  CATER, (CARTER), Richard;
	COLEMAN, James; PICKERING, Gee; PICKERING, Joshua; PICKERING, John 
	GEE; 

	Dumpling Cove.  Sarah Levett, "widow and relict of James Levett, " 
conveyed to Joseph Adams, "preacher of the Gospel," March 15, 1721, a tract
of 40 acres, "bounded somewhat northerly on ye lands that were formerly old
Mr. Langstar's, now in ye possession of Mr. Eleazar Coleman, somewhat 
westerly on ye river that runs into ye Great Bay, somewhat southerly by the
lands of Mr. John Dam, and somewhat easterly by the lands of said Adams;" -
-the land thus bounded being "at or near a place called Dumpling Cove, and 
formerly granted by the town of Dover to one Richard Cater" (Carter.)  
	Joseph Adams of Newington, Dec. 18, 1783, conveyed to John Gee 
Pickering 20 acres of land in Newington, "supposed to be half of the farm
where said Adams then lived,"  beginning at Joseph Dame's land, and running
along Little Bay to the land of James Coleman.  This land is now owned by 
Mr. Gee Pickering of Portsmouth, and the Dame land adjoining by the heirs of
Mr. Joshua Pickering.                    
	Dumpling cove is sometimes called Sow-Pit cove, probably a corruption
 of Sow and Pigs, a name given to a cluster of rocks in the river near this
 cove.									

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