Localities in Ancient Dover.
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��enables us to locate "the great raast path leading into the logging swarap." It ran from "Log hill" south, in the line of (now) Lexington street, with " Plum Pudding hill" on the immedi- ate right hand side ; then curving a little to the west, it crossed "the road leading from Cochecho to Tole End," and continuing became what is now the road to Little worth.
Wednesday Hill. So called in land grants as early as 1700 ; it is in the present town of Lee, a mile and a half south-east of Lee hill, on what was once the Lee town farm, and now owned by Daniel Smith. Tradition says a fight with Indians occurred there on Wednesday, and hence the name of the hill.
Welshman's Cove. On Great bay in Newington, and was thus called as early as 1652. Did "Welsh" James Grant have laud there ?
Wheelwright's Pond. So called from the Rev. John Wheelwright as early as 1666, and the name is re- tained to this day. It is in the pres- ent town of Lee, and is the source of Oyster river. It was at this pond that Captain Wiswall, Lieut. Flagg, Sergeant Walker, and twelve privates were slain, on July 6, 1690, in an en- gagement with the Indians. Capt. P'loj^d, with the remainder of the two companies, was obliged to retreat. When Capt. Con vers, the next morn- ing, went to look after the wounded, he found the Indians had retreated at the same time. He found seven whites who were wounded, and buried the dead above mentioned.
��White Hall. The name of a swamjj in Rochester, to the north-east of the Great pond (Cochecho, also Willand's), and so calleil as early as ]6r)0, when a grant of land was laid out to James Kidd, "north of the Great Pond, on the road leading to White Hall." The name is retained till this day. Was it given as a bur- lesque on the king's palace of the same name in London ?
Willand's Pond. The name which is commonly given to what was known as late as 1834, on Whitehouse's map of Dover, as Cochecho pond. The County Atlas of New Hampshire, by Hitchcock, in 1871, calls it Willand's pond. The Strafford County Atlas, by Sauford and Everts, in 1871, calls it Cocheco {sic) or Willand's poud. The latter name is derived from a family who lived at the head of the pond.
WiNNICHAHANNAT OR WeCANACO-
HUNT. The Indian name of Hilton's point. Edward Hilton's patent, in 1629-'30, March 12, calls it Wecana- cohunt; but Capt. Thomas Wiggin, May 22, 1656, surrendered his interest in the " Winnichahaunat or Hilton point" lands.
Woodman's Garrison. Capt. John Woodman's garrison, which was suc- cessfully defended in the Indian mas- sacre at Oyster river on July 17, 1694, and which stands to-day in a good state of preservation, is on the east side of Oyster river, and half a mile above the falls at the head of tide water.
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