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


LANDMARKS:  Indian Ground, or Corn Ground
  
NAMES:   COFFIN, Peter; WALDRON, Major; HORN, John; HARTFORD, William; 	   	      
	 HAISE (HAYES), Peter; HAISE (HAYES), John; 

	Indian Ground, or Corn Ground.  Mentioned the 7th, 10 mo., 1659, when 
sufficient land to make up Peter Coffin’s lot of 100 acres, was laid out a little above the 
third fall in the Cochecho river, beginning at a pine tree by the river side and extending up 
the river to a white oak on a little hill, thence northward to the swamp by the Indian 
ground.  This planting ground seems to have been abandoned by the Indians after the 
disturbances occasioned by Major Waldron’s treachery to them in 1676, and it was 
afterwards divided among the Dover settlers.  Among others, John Horn, Sr., had a grant 
of 30 acres "on the Indian corne ground on the west side of Cochecho river," March 19, 
1693-4.  It was laid out Feb. 16, 1711, beginning at the Indian Corn ground, upon the 
north side of burbadus (Barbadoes) way that leads to the tole end.  "Wm. Hartford Ap. 1, 
1712, conveyed to John and Peter Haise 20 acres of land "between Cochecha river and 
Barbadoes, beginning at a red oak on ye Indian Corn Ground."  (See Moharimet’s 
Planting-Ground.)

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