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


LANDMARKS: Furber point and Ferry

NAMES: FURBER, Wm.; FURBER, Jethro; FURBER, William; FFURBER, Joshua; 
	FFURBER, Elizabeth; ROBERTS, Thomas; 	

	Furber's Point and Ferry.  Furber's Point is on the Newington shore, 
at the Narrows between Great and Little Bays.  The name is derived from Wm.
Furber, who came from England in the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked at
Pemaquid in August, 1636.  He was at Dover in 1637, and belonged to the 
Combination of 1640.  He had a grant of land at Welsh Cove as early as 
1652.  In 1657, he had a grant of thirty acres more, which must have been 
beyond the boundary line at Hogsty Cove, as they were a part of the 400 
acres along Great Bay granted to Dover by the government of Mass. Bay in 
1643, and confirmed in May, 1656.  These 30 acres were doubtless part of 
the land he afterwards gave his son Jethro.  June 17, 1674, he gave his 
homestead to his oldest son William (see Pascataqua Rock), who Dec. 11, 
1694, was licensed to keep a ferry "from his house at Welchman's cove over
to Oyster River."  (See Mathew's Neck.)  Furber's ferry, however, was in 
operation before May, 1694.  (See N.H. Prov. Pap., 17:668.)  The ferry 
place on the Newington side is mentioned May 19, 1708, when "Joshua Ffurber 
of Portsmouth, Mariner, now bound to sea, upon a voyage to the West Indies, 
and not knowing how the Lord may dispose of me," gives, in his will, unto 
his "dear and loving wife Elizabeth," till her son Joshua should be of age,
his dwelling-house at Welch cove, and all his lands, "beginning at a pitch-
pine tree standing below the point, about fifteen rodds or thereabouts 
below the ferry-place, where the turn of the tide begins at ebb and flow, 
and from there to a stake in the field, on the south side of the old barn, 
and so on to William's line, and from thence to the elm tree by the brick-
yard home to the meadow of Thomas Roberts, being the house and land which 
my father William Ffurber, deceased, gave me by his deed of Sept. 13, 
1707."  The old Furbers lie buried at the right, as you drive down to the 
point where Furber's wharf formerly stood.  The way, now seldom traversed,
is rough, but bordered with many  fine walnut trees, and the view up Great
Bay and down Little Bay amply repays all fatigue.  Across the narrows may 
be seen amid the trees, the white house on Adam's Point, once called 
Mathews' Neck, the Durham terminus of Furber's ferry.		

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