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


LANDMARKS:Great Creek

NAMES: MATHES, Francis; MATHES, Benjamin; MATHEWS, Gershom; MATHEWS, 
	Benjamin, Jr.; 	
	
	Great Creek.  Mentioned the 23d, 10th mo., 1644, when, at a public 
town meeting in Dover, a grant was made to Mr. ffrancis Mathes¹ of "all the
marsh in the Great creek on the norwest side of the Great bay, being the 
first creek, and one hundred acres of upland adjoining to it."   The 
inventory of his estate, made "50 or 60 years" after his decease, and sworn
to by his son Benjamin, March 6, 1704, mentions among other lands, 100 
acres adjoining the N.W. side of the first creek in the Great Bay, together
with three acres of salt marsh.  Francis Mathes, Dec. 5, 1749, conveyed to
his grandsons Gershom and Benjamin Mathews, Jr., 100 acres of land in 
Durham, adjoining the Great Creek, commonly called Mathew's Creek, then in 
possession of said Gershom and Benjamin, with all his right to the said 
Great Creek, etc.  This creek is now called Crummit's creek.
								
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