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


LANDMARKS:  Hope Hood’s Point

NAMES:   TUTTLE, John; TUTTLE, Mary; PINKHAM, Richard; CROMWELL, Philip; TUTTLE, Thomas; 
	 TUTTLE, James; HODKINS, John; WHOOD, Hoope; ROBIN, Ould; COFFIN, Peter; 

	Hope Hood’s Point.  This point, so called, according to the late C.W. Tuttle, as 
early as 1694, is on the western shore of back river, above the Three Creeks.  It is 
mentioned March 1, 1701, when John and Mary Tuttle conveyed to Richard Pinkham a 
parcel of land and marsh "lying and being at ye hed of the crike runninge upon the west 
side of Hoope Hood’s Poynte, so called, and so through said Pinkham’s 20 acres bought 
of Philip Cromwell on ye west side of ye Bake river, and lying wthin ye southernmost line 
of that Twenty Acre loat by anny waies or menes whatsoever."  Thomas Tuttle conveyed 
to James Tuttle, May 3, 1740, a tract of salt marsh and upland in Dover, at a place 
commonly called Back River, beginning at a rock at Hope Woods Point, and running W. 
N.W. 34 rods by Pinkham’s land.
	The name of this point is derived from a noted Indian chief, said to have belonged 
to the Abenaki tribe.  Dr. Quint says he was the sagamore Wahowah or Wohawa, chief of 
all the lands from Exeter to Salmon Falls.  Hubbard, in his Narrative, calls him hope Hood, 
and says he was the son of robin Hood.  The name of "mr. hope hoth" and that of "Old 
Robin" are affixed to a letter from John Hogkins May 15, 1685.  (N.H. Prov. Pap., 1 : 
583.)  "Hoope Whood" and "Ould Robin" are also among the signers of a deed of land at 
"Squammagonake" to Peter Coffin Jan. 3, 1686.  It was Hoop Hood who led the attack 
on the Newichawannock settlement in 1690, as well as that on the Bloody point shore 
soon after, which Mr. Tuttle endeavors to disprove.  So noted did he become for his 
ferocity to the English settlers that Mather, in his Magnalia, loads him with opprobrious 
epithets, such as "that memorable tygre," "that hellish fellow," etc.  According to a local 
tradition he was killed in 1690, and buried on this point of land, which has ever since 
borne his name.  It is a spot as wild and solitary as it was 200 years ago.  Covered with 
thickets where the wild grape runs from tree to tree, and where, it is affirmed, the groans 
of the indian warrior are still to be heard from time to time among the moaning branches.


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