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


LANDMARKS:  Hobb’s Hole

NAMES:   KENNEY, Samuel; PLAISTED, Capt. Ichabod; HOBBS, Henry; 
	 HOBBS, Hannah; CANNEY, Thomas, Sr.; MASON, Capt.; 
	 HANSON, Thomas; GRANT, James; HOBBS, Henry; HOBBS, Thomas; 
	 NOCK, Sylvanus; STACKPOLE, James; WALLINGFORD, Thomas; 	 	       	   
	 WARREN, Benjamin; 

	Hobb’s Hole.  Mentioned Nov. 20, 1722, when Samuel Kenney confirmed to Capt. 
Ichabod Plaisted all right to three acres of land at a place in the township of Dover called 
Hobb’s hole, bounded southward and eastward by "Nichewanock" river, north by said 
Plaisted’s land, and west by that of Henry Hobbs, deceased.  The significance of the word 
"Hole" does not appear.
	Henry Hobbs married Hannah daughter of Thomas Canney, Sr.,  and received as 
part of her portion, July 12, 1161, six score acres of land between St. Alban’s cove and 
Quamphegan, bounded S.E. by the "Nechewannick" river in part, and partly by land that 
was sometime possessed by Capt. Mason’s agent; N.E. by the highway that goeth from ye 
south end of ye sd lot up into ye woods towards the N.W.; N.W. by Thomas Hanson’s 
land, and S.W. partly by James Grant’s, and partly by the commons.  Henry Hobbs 
conveyed to Thomas Hobbs, Ap. 12, 1720, one half of all his land at Sligo, bounded 
easterly by the "Nechawonack" river, southerly by Sylvanus Nock’s land, and northerly by 
that of James Stackpole. On this shore, in the upper part of the "Point district," not far 
above St. Alban’s cove, the Hobbses built ships in early times, which were easily launched 
at high tide, this part of the river being deep.  "The road that passes by the meeting-house 
down to Capt. Hobbs’s by the river" is mentioned July 26, 1764, in a deed of six acres of 
land which Thomas Wallingford sold Benjamin Warren, part of a tract said Wallingford 
had purchased of Thomas Hobbs.


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