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 53

Part I - General View- History

1640 - During this year the troubles at Dover increased.  One Larkeham, a native of Lime 
in England, and formerly minister at Barnstead, came over; possessing good talents as a 
preacher, he eclipsed Knolleys and was chosen in his place.  On this occasion a council 
was called, composed of Simon Broadstreet, Esq. of Boston, the celebrated Hugh Peters 
minister of Salem, and Timothy Dalton, minister of Hampton.  They travelled on foot to 
Dover but did not succeed in effecting a permanent arrangement.  Underhill, Knolleys, and 
Larkeham removed out of the colony.
	During all this period the people of Portsmouth, Dover, etc. had no right of self 
government delegated from the British crown, but finding the necessity of some more 
determinate form than they had as yet enjoyed, they combined themselves in separate 
bodies politic, after the example of their neighbours at Exeter.  The inhabitants of Dover, 
by a written instrument, subscribed by forty person, agreed to submit to the laws of 
England and to such other regulations as should be formed by a majority of their number, 
until the pleasure of the king should be known.  The date of a similar association at 
Portsmouth is not known.
	Mr. Hutchinson supposed the whole number of neat cattle in the colony of 
Massachusetts in 1640, to be 12,000, and the sheep about 4,000, and he says, that “a cow, 
sold two years ago for 30 l. may now be purchased for 5 or 6 l.”  It is probable that there 
were in New Hampshire at this time, about 1,200 neat cattle and 300 sheep.

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