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


LANDMARKS:  Hilton’s Cove

NAMES:   HALL, John; TRICKE, Thomas; LANGSTAFFE, Henry; 
	 LANGSTAR,  Henry; SHACKFORD, John; TRICKEY, Zachariah; 
	 KNIGHT, Capt. John; WALTON, George; WALTON, Frances; 
	 KNIGHT, Bridget; HOYT, John; BRAWN, George; TRICKEY, Ephraim; 

	Hilton’s cove. This cove is on the Newington shore, adjoining the old terminus of 
Knight’s ferry, but the name is no longer in use.  It is mentioned the 9th 5 mo., 1652, 
when John Hall had a grant of 18 acres "a little above Hilton’s Cove."  It is again 
mentioned the 5th, 10 mo., 1674, when Thomas Tricke’s grant of 18 acres in 1656, "on 
bloody poynt side," was laid out "aboue hilltones coue, joining to henery Lankster his land 
westerly, bounded up the gutt to a rock, and from the rock to A wall nutt Tree marked 
with an H and a T, and soe to a Beich Tree marked with A and T, and so to the freshett 
that runs in too Thomas Trickey his coue aboue his house at high-water mark."
	John Hall conveyed to Henry Langstaffe, the 1st 4 mo., 1668, 12 acres of land 
granted him by the town of Dover, together with house, goods, and chattels within doors 
and without.  Henry Langstar, grandson of the above henry, conveyed to john Shackford, 
Nov. 23, 1716, ten acres of land called Hall’s field, bounded N.W. by a little mead, W. by 
land formerly Zachariah Trickey’s but then in possession of Capt. John Knight, and E. by 
the highway to the ferry.  George Walton and Frances conveyed to john Knight, Feb. 27, 
178-19, ten acres of land "in ye town of Newington," bounded north westerly by land 
formerly Zachariah Trickey’s, then ye said Knight’s and easterly by the highway from the 
ferry to the meeting-house--"which ffield is called Hall’s ffield, and formerly belonged to 
Henry Langstar, deceased."
	John Knight, Sr., and wife Bridget, conveyed to their son John, Feb. 7, 1717-18, a 
tract of 18 acres at Bloody Point, bought of Zachary Trickey, bounded N.W. by the main 
river, east by John Hoyt’s land (previously Geo. Brawn’s), south by the Bloody Point 
highway to Nutter’s and west by Ephraim Trickey’s land,-- together with the 
dwelling-house, and all interest in the ferry at Bloody Poynt.


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