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 Turn

NAMES: FOLLET, William; CHESLEY, Ichabod; MESSERVE (Meserve), Daniel; 
JONES, Capt.; THOMPSON, Jonathan; DAVIS, John; CHESLEY, Temperance; DANIEL,
 Joseph; DEMERIT, Eli; EMERSON, Solomon; PITMAN, Zachariah; 

	Great Turn.  Mentioned June 10, 1719, when 100 acres of land, granted
to Wm. Follet in 1658, were laid out to Ichabod Chesley "near ye Place 
called the Grate Turn."  This land adjoined the S.W. side of "Belloman's 
Bank freshett."  Thirty acres were laid out to Daniel Messerve June 12, 
1719, beginning "at the south side of the way that leads to the hook, at a 
pine at the great turn," and thence running N.N.W. 60 rods by the path to a
white pine.  A highway into the woods was laid out May 31, 1733, "beginning
on ye west side of the road at ye great turn, as ye way was formerly laid
out by Capt. Jones and Jonathan Thompson." and running "as ye way now goes
on ye north side of John Davis's house and so along ye same way till it 
comes to Durham line."  Ichabod Chesley and wife Temperance, Ap. 4, 1748, 
conveyed to Joseph Daniel 25 5/8 acres of land in Dover,  near the place 
called the great turn.  May 28, 1748, he conveyed to Eli Demerit 13 1/4 
acres in Dover, on the S.W. side of Belliman's Bank freshit, near the place
called the Great turn being part of 100 acres granted to Wm. Folliott of
Oyster River the 5th, 2 mo., 1658¹.  and that same day Ichabod Chesley 
conveyed to Solomon Emerson 9 1/2 acres of Follet's grant, near the great
turn, beginning at the S.E. corner of the land Zachariah Pitman bought of
said Chesley, near said Emerson's orchard (See Long Turn.)                    

¹ Foliot was the name of a Devonshire family, allied with the Gorges. 
(Baxter's Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 2:152.)			

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