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


LANDMARKS: Knight’s Ferry

NAMES:  TRICKEY, Thomas; TRICKEY, Elizabeth; TRICKEY, Zachariah; 		    	    
	CHEVALIER (SHEAVALLIER), John; NUTTER; KNIGHT, Capt. John; 	   	    
	DREW, Nancy N.; DAME, Charles; JANVRIN, John; KNIGHT; 
	Elizabeth; KNIGHT, Bridget; PIKE, Rev. John; 

	Knight’s Ferry.  This ferry, under the name of Trickey’s ferry or Bloody Point 
ferry, was in operation at an early day.  It ran not only from Bloody Point to Hilton’s 
Point, but also to the Kittery shore, and was originally owned by Thomas Trickey, who 
was in Dover as early as 1640, and was living at Bloody Pt. before 1657.  He died before 
1680, in which year, on the 16th of June, his widow Elizabeth renounced all claim to the 
Trickey plantation and the ferry belonging to it, in favor of her son Zachariah.  Zachariah 
Trickey of bloody Point, Aug. 1, 1705, conveyed to John Chevalier, alias Knight, 14 acres 
of upland at Bloody Point, where ye ferry is kept, part of ye land formerly granted Thomas 
Trickey, bounded east by Zachariah’s homestead, of which this tract was a part, south by 
the highway going to Nutter’s (Welsh Cove), and northwest by other Trickey lands and 
the "main river."  This deed was confirmed Nov. 22, 1705, when mention was made of the 
boats, "gondeloes," and other equipments for the ferry.
	"Capt. John Knight of Dover near Bloody Point," petitioned to the N.H. General 
Assembly, Dec. 18, 1705, for a license to carry on the Bloody Point ferry, "setting forth 
that the ferry there kept to Hilton’s Point belonging to Dover Neck, and the other from 
the said Bloody point to Kittery Neck, were always holden by the inhabitants of Trickey’s 
farm which is now his by purchase, and thereupon humbly prays that the right of the said 
ferrys may be conferred upon him."  It was "accordingly agreed that the Governor be 
desired to give him a patent for the ferrys, he not demanding more than twelve pence for 
every horse and man at each ferry, and three pence for every single person without Horse, 
he always taking care that there be Boats always ready, that there be no complaint 
thereupon." (N.H. Prov. Pap., 3 : 322-323.)
	John Knight was a Huguenot refugee, who changed his French name of Chevalier 
for its english equivalent of Knight.  "John Chevalier and man" are on the Portsmouth 
rate-list of 1681.  "John Knight of Portsmouth, alias chevalier," Oct. 18, 1702, bought the 
Carter farm at Pine Point, adjacent to the mill-stream below Bloody Point. (See Pine 
Point.)¹
	The Knight place at Bloody Point, whence the ferry ran to Hilton’s Point and 
Kittery, was acquired by Miss Nancy N. Drew, July 16, 1831.  (See Nancy Drew’s Point.)
 It now belongs to Mr. Charles Dame.
	There was another knight’s ferry between Fox Point and the Durham shore.  (See 
Fox Point.)

PG 117-18

¹The marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of John Knight and Bridget his wife, to John Janvrin 
is thus recorded by the Rev. John Pike:  "Mr. John Jambrin of Jersey (belonging to 
England) was legally married to Elizabeth Knight, alias Sheavallier, of the town of Dover 
in new England, upon the 12 of September, 1706."  The Knights and Janvrins are 
connected with the present writer (Mary Thompson)through her paternal grandmother.




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