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


LANDMARKS:  The Heath

NAMES:   WILLE, Thomas; HAWKINS, Stephen; CANNEY, Ichabod; HAYES, Paul; 
	 ROBERTS, Joseph; AUSTIN, Peter; AUSTIN, Betty; CARR, Moses; 	
  	 AUSTIN, Nicholas; ROLLINS, Ichabod; RANDALL, Daniel; 

	The Heath. A heath in the upper part of Dover is mentioned July 5, 1736, when 20 
acres -- part of a 30 acre grant to Thomas Wille, July 8, 1734 -- were laid out to his son 
Thomas "at a place called ye Eleware plains,"  on the north side of the road from the heath 
to Green Hill.  This land was conveyed to Stephen Hawkins March 29, 1743.  Ichabod 
Canney’s seven acres of land, conveyed to Paul Hayes Ap. 1, 1741, were laid out above 
the heath, on the S.W. side of Cochecho river, beginning at Stephen Wile’s W. corner 
bound.  Joseph Roberts’ share of the common lands in 1734, was laid out to him Nov. 10, 
1741, above the heath, beginning at the head line of Dover, at the N.W. corner of Ichabod 
Canney’s land.
	The marsh adjacent to Willand’s Pond, between Peter’s Marsh brook and the 
Dover road to Whitehall, is commonly called "the hathe" or Heath.  Peter Austin of 
Somersworth, and wife Betty, conveyed to Moses Carr, Jan. 16, 1788, 26 acres of land, 
bought of Nicholas Austin, bounded E. by the road from Dover to Great Falls and the land 
of Ichabod Rollins, southerly by Daniel Randall, and westerly by the heath brook, so 
called.
	There is also a heath on the upper side of Wheelwright’s pond.  (See Langley’s 
Heath.)


		
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