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


LANDMARKS:  Jonas Point.

NAMES:  BINN (BINE), Jonas; STEVENSON, Thomas; MATHES, Francis; 
	    MATHES, Valentine; MATHES, Abraham, Jr.; BICKFORD, John; 
	    BICKFORD, Winthrop; WILLEY, Stephen; MATHES, Dorothy;

	Jonas’ Point.  So called from Jonas Binn or Bine, who in 1651 had a house and lot 
of six acres which he bought of Thomas Stevenson, on the point at the entrance into 
Oyster river, compassed with the river every way except the south side, which joined the 
land of Mr. Francis Mathes.  Francis Mathes, Dec. 20, 1748, conveyed to Valentine and 
Abraham Mathes, Jr., the homestead where he then lived, "beginning at John Bickford’s 
orchard point, so the salt water is ye bounds to Jonese Point, and Oyster river and said 
point is on ye northerly side," etc. John Bickford June 8, 1771, conveyed to his son 
Winthrop Bickford 25 acres of land bounded northerly and westerly by land of Valentine 
Mathes, easterly by the water, and southerly by the land of Stephen Willey.  Also another 
parcel of land near the above commonly known by the name of Jonas’s Point, containing 
six acres bounded southerly by land of Valentine Mathes, and westerly, northerly and 
easterly by the salt water.
	Jonas’s Point, is on the south side of Oyster river, at the very mouth, and now 
belongs to Miss Dorothy Mathes.  The name is still retained, but is generally corrupted to 
Jones’s Point.

PG 116-17



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