A Compendious History of the First Parish in Dover Taken from the Sermons Preached on the First Sabbath in January 1831, by REV. H. Winslow, Then Pastor of Said Church (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Compendious History of the First Parish in Dover: Taken From the Sermons Preached on the First Sabbath in January 1831, by Rev. H. Winslow, Then Pastor of Said Church

It hence appears that Dover, Portsmouth2 and Exeter, are the three oldest towns in the State, the records of the fist ex tending back to 1623, or three years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth those of Exeter to 1638 or 9; and the precise date of Portsmouth as a township being uncertairi, but' its political organization supposed to be about simultaneous With those of Dotfer and Exeter. Dover is them, according to the rec ords, the eldest town in the State, having its earliest date only three years after the landing of the pilgrims. 1 This parish is therefore the most ancient parish in the State of New Hamp shire and the Church connected with ilz is the most ancient Church in the State, having been first organized in 1638, or 192 years since.

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