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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. DOVER. Dover was the first settled town in New Hampshire; settled A. D. 1623. Dover is one of the principal towns of the county of Strafford, situated about ten miles north-west from Portsmouth. Its two principal streams are the Cocheco, and the Belemy Bank rivers; they take a south-east course through the town, and unite with other waters to form the Piscataqua. On Dover neck, the first settlement of the town was made, in 1623, by a company in England, who styled themselves the Company of La- conia. Dover, some fifty or sixty years ago, was thickly peopled. The principal English goods business was done at the corner; the lumber and hard ware, at the landing. I shall speak of some of the principal gentlemen who did business in Dover half a century ago. The Hon. William Hale, member of Congress, from N. H., was a mercantile gentleman, and an importer of hard ware. Mr. Hale was extensively known abroad, and highly respected; was a man of strict veracity and integrity; he exemplified his wisdom and great strength of mind to the last. His large amount of property was left equally to his heirs at his decease. Dr. Ezra Green, a distinguished surgeon in the French war, kept an extensive assortment of English goods, in Silver street. The venerable Dr. sustained the high reputation of an honest man, and an exemplary Christian. He lived to the advanced years of one hundred and upwards, and quietly fell asleep in th arms of his God, whom he worshiped. I will mention some of the principal gentlemen who did business in D. half a century ago. Ezra Green, Asa Tufts, John Wheeler, George Andrews, Philemon Chandler, Morrell Curriur, at the corner, Michael Read, William Hale, Joseph Smith, William Perkins, Joseph Gage, Joshua Perkins, James Jewett, with their associa...
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