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


LANDMARKS:   Harwood’s Cove, otherwise Harrod’s Herod’s Heard’s, etc.  

NAMES:  POMFRETT, William; NUTTER, Anthony; NUTTER, Sarah; 
	ROBERTS, Thomas; DAM, John, Sr.; Moody, Mr.; TIBBETS, Thomas; 
	TIBBETS, Judith; HUNTRESS, George; LEITSH (LEACH) (LEITH), James; 
        LEITSH (LEACH) (LEITH), John; WALTON, George; WALTON, Shadrach; 
	WALTON, George; KNIGHT, Nathan; HALL, John; JACKSON, John; 
	DOWNING, John, Jr.; WALTON,  George, Sr.; TIBBETS, Thomas; 
	TIBBETS, Ephraim; NUTTER, John; DAM (DAME), Moses; PERRY, John; 
	VINCENT, John; HARWOOD, Andrew; FFURSON, Thomas; SWADDE, Phillip; 
	JOHNSON, Thomas; 

	Harwood’s Cove, otherwise Harrod’s Herod’s Heard’s, etc.  This cove, now 
called Laighton’s Cove, is on the Newington Shore of great Bay, below Fabyan’s Point.  It 
is referred to the 20th, 8 mo., 1651, when Wm. Pomfrett of Dover conveyed to Anthony 
Nutter a marsh on the N.E. side of Great Bay, at the great cove there, above long point.  
Anthony Nutter and wife Sarah, in exchange for land at Welsh Cove, conveyed to Thomas 
Roberts, June 6, 1664, " a parcel of marsh in ye Great Bay in Dover, in a certain cove 
usually called by ye name of Harrod’s Cove, bounded by ye mouth of a small trench, and 
so upon a straight line down to ye middle of a small island betwixt ye marsh of John Dam, 
Sr., and ye aforesaid marsh of Anthony Nutter."  Thomas Roberts, in his deed of land on 
Welsh cove, exchanged for the above tract, speaks of the latter as "in Hard’s Cove." "The 
freshett called Harwood’s creek or cove," is mentioned in Mr. Moody’s grant of  May 10, 
1668.  (See Harwood’s Creek.)  It is called Herd’s cove, July 5, 1700, when Thomas 
Tibbets of Dover and Judith his wife conveyed to George huntress all his salt marsh (about 
two acres) on ye east side of the creek running out of ye gutt commonly called by the 
name of Herd’s Gut into the great bay, bounded by John Dam on the west, north-west by 
said creek, and so to Herd’s cove, with the privilege of the flats from the lower point of 
the marsh at the creek’s mouth on a S.S.W. direction into the bay.  This adjoined the tract 
conveyed to George Huntress, Dec. 13, 1699, by James and John "Leitsh" (Leach), who 
in the deed, speak of it as "land in Portsmouth at great bay, at a place called by ye name of 
Harwoods cove," on the north side of George Walton’s land, which tract had been granted 
their father James "Leith" by the town of Portsmouth.
	Shadrach and George Walton of New Castle conveyed to Nathan Knight in 1708, 
a tract of "136 acres in Portsmouth, on the N.E. side of the Greate Bay, at a place called 
and known by the name of Harwood’s cove," beginning at a white oak by the water side in 
said cove, and running to a red oak near John Hall’s fence, joining John Jackson.  Nathan 
Knight of Dover conveyed to John Downing, Jr., Ap. 12, 1712, "thirty acres of land in 
Dover, part of 136 acres laid out to George Walton, Sr., in 1665, beginning at a white oak 
by the water side in harrold’s cove," etc.  Thomas and Ephraim Tibbets, Dec. 2, 1735, 
conveyed to John Nutter of Newington a tract of marsh (four acres) in Harrod’s cove in 
Great Bay, bounded on the upper end by the marsh of Deacon Moses Dam, west by the 
marsh of Anthony Nutter, deceased, and easterly upon "ye crick that runs between ye 
marsh of Christopher Huntress" (grandson of the above George) and the premises then 
conveyed, with the thatch-bed adjoining, running over to "ye loor paint (lower point) of ye 
salt marsh formerly sold to sd Huntress."  John Perry conveyed to John Vincent May 12, 
1735, "a parcel of fflatts or thatch-bed in Harwood’s Cove, Newington," on the S. side of 
Christopher Huntress. (See Laighton’s Cove.) 
	The name of Harwood’s cove was probably derived from Andrew Harwood, who 
is mentioned in 1643, when he and Thomas ffurson were brought before the authorities 
"for neglecting to come to the ordinances of God this last winter."  He was engaged in the 
lumber business.  A suit at court concerning the sale of timbre, clapboards, and 
pipe-staves, by Phillip Swadden, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Harwood, and Thomas ffurson
 is mentioned the last of the 6th mo., 1643.  (county Records, Exeter.)  See Herod’s Point 
and Wigwam.


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