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

LANDMARKS;	Falls Hill	

NAMES: HILL, Valentine; HILL, Nathaniel; PIKE, Thomas, Jr.; PIKE, Thomas; 
	ATKINSON, Dr. Joseph; JONES, Timothy; JONES, Eleanor; LEATHERS, 
	Abednego; LAIGHTON, James; COOK, Mrs.; 

	Falls Hill.  The hill in Durham village on which the congregational 
meeting-house now stands is repeatedly called by this name in the records 
of last century.  May 25, 1736, Nathaniel and Valentine Hill sold Thomas 
Pike, Jr., of the bury Newtown, three acres on the west side of Falls hill,
bounded northerly by the mast way, and westerly by the way leading towards
ye spruce swamp and little mill (Chesley's mill).  This land Thomas Pike 
conveyed to Joseph Atkinson Sept. 12, 1738, when Falls hill is again 
mentioned, as well as the other bounds.  Timothy Jones of Stratham, 
innholder, and Eleanor his wife, Sept. 4, 1747, conveyed to Abednego 
Leathers of Durham, mariner, three acres of land, with dwelling-house, 
barn, and malt house thereon, which land and buildings Jones had bought of 
Dr. Joseph Atkinson, "lying on the west side of a hill called and known by 
the name of Falls hill, bounded N. by the mast path, W. by the usual way 
leading to the spruce swamp, and S. and E. by the land of Nathaniel and 
Valentine Hill."  This land was afterwards acquired by James Laighton, and 
is now owned for the most part by Mrs. Cook.	
										
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LANDMARKS: Falls Hill

NAMES: STEVENS, Deacon Hubbard; EMERSON, Moses; EMERSON, Capt. Nehemiah; 
	EMERSON, Jonathan; EMERSON, Capt. Samuel; WINSLOW, Gov. Edward; 
	GILMAN, Gov. John Taylor; THOMPSON, Lucien; HILL, Nathaniel;
 	BALLARD'S TAVERN; HOITT, Mr.; HILL, Valentine; THOMPSON, Benjamin;
 	Falls Hill.  Deacon Hubbard Stevens of Durham conveyed to Moses 
Emerson¹ of Haverhill, Mass., May 23, 1751 a quarter of an acre of land, 
with a dwelling-house on it, on the west side of a hill called by the name 
of Falls hill, lying between the country path (the road to Madbury) and the
mast path, which land said Stevens bought of Nathaniel Hill.  Here, at a 
later period, stood Ballard's tavern now owned by Mr. Hoitt. 
      Both of these tracts originally belonged to Valentine Hill's grant of
500 acres, which comprised all the land from Durham falls including the 
greater part of the present village, to the western boundary of the land 
owned by the late Benjamin Thompson.
	
¹Moses Emerson was appointed commissary in the Revolutionary army in 
1775.  He had four brothers in the army, one of whom as Capt. Nehemiah 
Emerson of Haverhill, Mass.  They descended from Jonathan Emerson, of 
Haverhill, brother of Cap. Samuel Emerson of Oyster River.  The second wife
of Moses Emerson was a Taylor, a great granddaughter of Gov. Edward Winslow
of Mass., and near relative of Gov. John Taylor Gilman's mother, of Exeter.
She died in Durham, and lies buried in the Thompson burial-ground, near the
residence of Mr. Lucien Thompson.					

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LANDMARKS: Fancy Hill	

NAMES: CANNEY, Ichabod; HANSON, Joseph; TWOMBLEY, William; 	

	Fancy Hill.  Mentioned July 23, 1735, when 20 acres of land were laid 
out to Ichabod Canney on the S.W. side of the road from Littleworth to the 
Saplings, at a place called Fancy Hill, beginning at Joseph Hanson's east 
corner, and running along his land S.W. to his south corner, then along the
commons and Wm. Twombley's land to the road, and by the road to the first
bound.  The name of Fancy hill has not been perpetuated, but it seems to 
have been the hill a little west of Barbadoes Pond, which affords a pleasant
view across the pond, with the city of Dover farther east, and Garrison 
Hill and other heights in the distance.				

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