From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 50-51

Part I - General View- History

1631 - The whole plantation of New Hampshire was this year divided into two parts.  
Capt. Thomas Wiggin was appointed agent for the upper ad Capt. Walter Neal for the 
lower.  The former of these divisions contained what is now called Dover, Durham, etc. 
and the latter contained Portsmouth, Rye, Newcastle, Newington, and a part of 
Greenland.  A house was this year erected at Strawberry Bank, called the Great House.  
Humphrey Chadbourne had the care of the sawmills at the upper plantations:  the 
descendants of this man are to the present day persons of considerable note.
	The proprietors this year sent over from England several pieces of cannon which 
they directed their agents to mount at some place most convenient for a fort.  They 
accordingly stationed them on the northwest point of the great island which lies at the 
mouth of the Piscataqua harbor, and laid out the ground about a “bow shot” distance from 
the water side to a high rock, on which, it was contemplated to build the principal fort.


Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
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