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Historically Speaking: Dover has its own history of slavery Tony McManus Back in 1775, Colonial authorities in New Hampshire took a census of its inhabitants and reported the total number of people then in Dover as 1,666. There were 410 males under the age of 16, 786 females, 342 males between the ages of 16 and 50 not in the army, and 74 males over the age of 50, a decidedly young population. In addition, there were 342 males gone in the army, a decidedly large percentage of the whole. There was one final category: 26 negros and slaves for life . There may not have been an organized slave trade in New Hampshire in those years, but there was considerable commerce between the Seacoast and various Caribbean islands, being the source for much of the slave population in the Southern Colonies. But there were individuals who would be brought to Portsmouth and purchased by some of the wealthier families in the area, more so there than in Dover. ....
Anthony McManus Many people may not think of Dover as a particularly hilly area, but in fact, from its very early years a number of locations have been identified specifically as heights of land. In today s world, with paved roads and structures of various kinds spread about, the landscape may seem more flattened and we may not be totally aware that we are dealing with some fairly dramatic inclines. A motor vehicle makes it seem easy. But think for a minute about our forbears in the 1700s and 1800s pushing a wheelbarrow or trying to maneuver a horse and wagon, the principal modes of transport of the times, on a muddy or icy unpaved roadway from one of the warehouses along the waterfront up the lower portion of Portland Avenue, or up what is now Rogers Street, slipping and sliding up or down what we know as George or Hanson streets, going south the length of Henry Law Ave (back then Payne Street), or (even today under some winter conditions) heading toward the hospi ....