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 Graves.
  
NAMES:   CHESLEY, Philip; CHESLEY, Lt. Philip; WOODMAN, Mr.; HILL, I. Blake; 	      
	 HULL, Benjamin; 

	Indian Graves.  Mentioned the 4th, 9 mo., 1652, when Philip Chesley had a grant 
of 100 acres "at the Indian graves," which was laid out in 1661.  Of this land 78 acres 
were laid out for his grandson, Lieut. Philip Chesley, July 21, 1715, beginning at "the 
south end of the Indian graves att beach hill, att a hemlock marked P.C. on the south side 
of the road, thence running S.S.W. 52 rods to a hemlock, thence S.S.E. 240 rods along by 
Mr. Woodman’s land to a beach tree, thence N.N.E. 52 rods, to a red oak by a grate rock 
by the road, thence by the highway to the first bound."
	This land is on the western side of Beech Hill, and is now owned in part, if not 
wholly, by Mr. I. Blake Hill.
	Another Indian burying-ground is mentioned the 5th, 8 mo., 1659, when Benjamin 
Hull had a grant of 100 acres from the town of Dover, "adiacent to the bounds of 
Puscassick mill, on the S.W. sied of Lamprill River fall," which was laid out the 12th, 11 
mo., 1660, "beginning at a marked tree in the town bounds, by the Indian graves that are 
thear," and running W. by S. 12 rods, "then N. to Lamprill river, and along the river side 
as long as the river bears away east, making the line 120 rods, till you come to a marked 
tree, then S. to the town bounds next Exeter side near the graves."  Exeter, it will be 
remembered, then included Newmarket.  (See Hull’s Meadow.)
	The tongue of land on the west side of Beard’s creek, where the Woodman’s lie 
buried, not far from their garrison, has always borne the name of the Indian 
burying-ground, derived perhaps from a tradition that they were partly of Indian descent, 
through an early member of the family said to have married a dusky maiden of the 
Mohawk race.  Nothing has been found in the records, however, to justify this romantic 
tradition.

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