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Located on Dover Point Road, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Strafford County, New Hampshire. Strafford County was one of the five original counties identified for New Hampshire in 1769. It was named after William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford in the mistaken belief that he was the ancestor of Governor John Wentworth – although they were distantly related, William had no descendants. Adja...
Settled in 1623, Dover was the first permanent settlement in New Hampshire and the seventh oldest in the United States.== History == Settlement The first known European to explore the region was Martin Pring from Bristol, England, in 1603. In 1623, William and Edward Hilton settled Cochecho Plantation, adopting its Abenaki name, making Dover the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, and...