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Historically Speaking: Why is that Samuel C. Fisher sign on Summer Street?
Tony McManus
DOVER - Across the front of the building designated as 17 Summer St. is a good-sized sign: Samuel C. Fisher. He is the third member of the group that invested in the purchase of Ricker s Field in 1868.
At the time of the purchase, he was living at what is 19 Summer at the corner of Summer and Locust, but that lies outside the area of their purchase, and the house itself predates their investment by almost 40 years.
The original residence was built in 1830 by Jabez Dow, a local doctor, who owned and lived in the home at 30 Silver St. Dow was a founder of the Strafford County Medical Society in 1808, and was the husband of Mary Edna Hill Gray Dow, mentioned in previous articles as the pioneering first-ever female owner of a business corporation, the Dover Horse Railway. The new home on land owned by Dow on Summer St., was built for Samuel, Jabez s son, also a doctor, and he lived there un
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.