Notes on the First Planting of New Hampshire and on the Piscataqua Patents #255690

From the Little Harbor fronting the north side of the promontory a salt water creek runs back so far towards the ocean, as almost to convert the en closed point into an island of about six hundred acres area, which was the precise amount of land required by the Indenture to be allotted to the new plantation. The soil is good, and among the rocks on the harbor shore is a living spring of fresh water. The harbor is safe and accessible at all times to vessels of light draught, and most commodiously situated for the prosecution of the fisheries, as well as for the peltry traffic with the Indians of Saga more Creek and Piscataqua river. Above all oth er advantages in those perilous times, the Point, rising on every side towards its centre and almost surrounded by water, 'was easily defensible against the assaults of savages. These considerations probably determined Thomson in the selection of this site for the new plantation, which he named, perhaps from the Indian appellation, Pannaway.