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


LANDMARKS:  Hill’s Swamp

NAMES:  BICKFORD, John, Sr.; FOOTMAN, Thomas; HIX (HICKS), Joseph; 
	HILL, Valentine; WALDRON, Richard; HILL, William; 

	Hill’s Swamp.  Mentioned in 1656, when John Bickford, Sr., had a grant of 100 
acres of upland adjacent to Thomas footman’s hundred acres, on the N.W. side of "the 
swampe sometimes called Mr. hill’s swampe."  This Bickford land was afterwards 
acquired by Joseph Hix, for whom it was laid out anew Ap. 12, 1718, on the N.W. side of 
Hill’s swamp.  This swamp was apparently the low land in Madbury, adjoining the Boston 
& Maine R.R., between Hick’s Hill and Pudding Hill.  The name may have been derived 
from Valentine hill of Oyster river, the only person of the name in Dover at the time of 
Bickford’s grant, who appears to have had the prefix of "Mr."  A timber grant to "Mr. 
Hill" (no doubt Valentine) "on ye north side of ye path from Bellamies Bank towards 
Oyster River," is mentioned in a grant to Richard Waldron in 1652.  In the time of Joseph 
Hix (or Hicks), however, Wm. Hill lived at the lower side of Pudding Hill.  "the mast path 
that leadeth from Knight’s farm to William Hill’s," is mentioned Feb. 28, 1705-6.  Thirty 
acres were laid out to Henry Marsh Ap. 4, 1709, "eastward of Mahorramet’s hill, 
beginning at a hemlock tree on the poynt of the plain to the westward of William Hill’s 
plantation."

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