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


LANDMARKS:  Indigo Hill
 
NAMES:   WENTWORTH, Ezekiel; TUTTLE, John; TUTTLE, Ebenezer; 
	 COLE, Robert; HALL, John; ENDICOTT, John; 

	Indigo Hill.  This is a well-known hill in Somersworth, about three quarters of a 
mile below Great Falls, between the river and the new road to Salmon Falls.  It is 
mentioned March 19, 1693-4, when Ezekiel Wentworth had a grant of land on Salmon 
Falls river, above Indigo Hill.  John Tuttle had a grant of 60 acres June 18, 1694, between 
Indigo Hill and Antonies (brook), which, in his will of Dec. 28, 1717, he gives his son 
Ebenezer.  Over 23 acres of this land were conveyed to Robert Cole Sept. 4, 1730, when 
it is spoken of as on the north side of John Hall’s lot.  A road was laid out in 1720 from 
Quamphegan to Indigo Hill and the commons.  This road is now partly closed up.  The 
name is found variously written Indigo, Indego, and Endego.  Its origin does not appear, 
but the suggestion has been made that it may be a corruption of Endicott.  John Endicott 
was governor of Massachusetts for many years between 1644 and 1665, at which time 
New Hampshire was under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts government.  Others 
suppose it to be a reminiscence of commercial relations with Antigua, the name of which is 
found corrupted to Antegoe which is found corrupted to Antegoe in the old records, not 
dissimilar in south to Indigo.


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