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


LANDMARKS:	Goddard's Creek.	

NAMES: JOCELYN, Henry; MILLER, Joseph; LARKHAM, Thomas; GOODARD, John;
 COFFIN, Peter; HILL, Mr.; YORK, Richard; FURBER, William, Sr.; DOE,
 Sampson; DOE, Samuel; DOE, Nathaniel; MASON, Capt. John;

	Goddard's Creek.  This creek is on the southern shore of Lubberland, 
and was, till 1870, one of the boundaries between Durham and Newmarket, 
and, of course, between Strafford and Rockingham counties.  The dividing 
line, when perambulated March 4, 1805, "from Lampeyeel River Bridge to the 
great bay," began "at the picked rock under said bridge, and ran S. 56 1/2°
E. 264 rods, to the head of Goddard's creek, so called thence by the 
channel of said creek to the mouth at the bay aforesaid."            
	The name of this creek was derived from John Goddard, one of Capt. 
Mason's colonists, who came over with Henry Jocelyn and others in the "Pied 
Cow", in 1634, and arrived at Newichawannock July 13, where he aided in 
erecting a saw-mill and corn mill.  (Tuttle's Capt. John Mason, p. 325)  He 
acquired land on the creek that afterwards took his name Sept. 22, 1647, 
when Joseph Miller conveyed to him the house where Miller then lived, 
together with 30 acres of Marsh on the west side of Great Bay, near the 
Great Cove, and 100 acres of land on the west side of said marsh, all of 
which had been originally granted to Thomas Larkham.  John Goddard died 
before June 27, 1667, on which day the inventory of his estate was made.  
"The old way from Lamprill-river falls to John Godder's," is mentioned the 
28th, 2 mo., 1664, in the laying out of a road from said falls to the Great 
Bay.  His creek is mentioned June 25, 1675, when all of Lamprey river neck 
was conveyed to Peter Coffin, extending from the head of "John Goddar's 
creek" to the head of tide water below Lamprey river falls, where Mr. 
Hill's works stood.  An error having been made in laying out "a lot at 
Lubberland for old Richard York," and the old return being lost, the bounds
were renewed Dec. 11, 1683, beginning at a marked tree by the creek called
Goddard's creek	and running N.N.W. 60 poles to a valley or 
gutter	etc.							

PG 84-85





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