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


LANDMARKS: Freetown

NAMES: PITMAN, Derry; DEMERIT, Wm.; PITMAN, Dorothy; FOWLER, Wm.; FOWLER, 
	Nathaniel; PITMAN, Zachariah; DAVIS, Nathaniel; DAVIS, John; EMERSON,
 	Samuel; EMERSON, Dorothy; ALLIN, Wm.; ALLIN, Hannah; TIBBETS, Joseph;
	TIBBETS, Sarah; TOMPSON, John, Jr. and Abigail; DAM, Wm; EMERSON, 
	Michal;DAM, Sarah; HILL, Mr.;  

	Freetown.  This name has long been given to a part of Madbury, north 
of Hick's hill, now in school district No. 3.  It is mentioned in Feb., 
1730, when twenty acres of land were laid out to Derry Pitman, "a little 
above the west end of Mehermett's Hill,"  beginning at the corner of Wm. 
Demerit's land, and running N. by it 60 rods, then E. by the common, then 
S. "on a road leading to the road commonly called Freetown road."  Derry 
Pitman and wife Dorothy² conveyed to Wm. Fowler, June 25, 1748, one acre of 
land in Madbury, part of a 30 acre grant to his father Nathaniel, June 23,
1701, beginning at Zachariah Pitman's fence, near said Fowler's house, on 
the same side of the road leading from Madbury to the place commonly called
Freetown.                              
	Twenty-eight acres were laid out to Nathaniel Davis Nov. 14, 1749, at
a place called Freetown, where said Davis then lived, being part of a 
thirty acre grant to his father John Davis, deceased.  Samuel Emerson of 
Dover and Dorothy his wife, Wm. Allin of Rochester and Hannah his wife, 
Joseph Tibbets of Rochester and Sarah his wife, and John Tompson, Jr., of 
Durham and Abigail his wife, conveyed to Wm. Dam, Jan. 10, 1751, 25 acres 
of land in that part of Dover called freetown, granted "Michael" Emerson of 
Dover, deceased, in the division of the common lands, bounded on the S.E. 
by Joseph Jenkins, and joining Nathaniel Davis, and the Hayes lands, on the
S.E. and S.W., and running north to a rock called John Foy's.  The 
inventory of Mrs. Sarah Dam's estate, July 16, 1767, mentions her land " at
a place called Freetown, in Madbury."         
	 At a public meeting in the parish of Madbury, March 31, 1757, it was
voted that a school be kept two months "at Mr Hill's House at Freetown."									

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