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


LANDMARKS:	Durham Falls

NAMES: DANIELS, Levi; ODIORNE, William; ODIORNE, Avis; MEDER, Timothy;
	 PERKINS, Abraham; HANSON, John; 	

	Durham Falls.  this name is often given to the lowest falls in Oyster
river, and to the village of Durham itself.  (See Oyster River Falls.)  A
road laid out "from Durham Falls to Coos," is mentioned July 13, 1768, as
"beginning at Durham Falls," and thence running to Madbury Meeting-house,
thence through Barrington by Levi Daniels' house, etc. (N.H. State Pap.,
18: 584.)                   
	Durham Falls bridge, across Oyster river at the foot of the lowest
falls, is mentioned Oct. 8, 1770, when William and Avis Odiorne, conveyed
to Timothy Meder the "Mansion House"  where they then dwelt, together with
a barn and warehouse, and one acre of land, bounded S. by land of Abraham 
Perkins, deceased, E. by the road from Durham Falls bridge to Nottingham, 
and N. and W. by John Hanson's land.					

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