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Windham Town Beach LbNA #48169

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 13, 2009
Location:
City:Windham
County:Rockingham
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:JaCKAL iZ GoDLy
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Last edited:Jun 13, 2009
1.Starting from 93 North, exit 3 NH, and turn left on Rt 111 West.
2.Turn left on Lowell Rd, then left on Cobbett's Rd until you come to the beach on the left.
3.Park in the parking lot and walk to the front gate.
4.Turn right and walk 25 paces.
5.Walk through the mulch until you come to a bunch of trees.
6.Look behind the trees for your prize.


History:
Cobbett's Pond in Windham derived its name from the Rev. Thomas Cobbet, a prominent Puritan divine of the first generation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was minister in Lynn, 1637-56, and in Ipswich, 1656-85. In the public records his name is sometimes found spelled Cobbett and Cobbitt as well as Cobbet, but there seems to be no question that the last named method was considered by himself as the correct one.
The first published map on which the pond was named was probably the famous map of New Hampshire prepared by Dr. Philip Carrigain, by authority of the legislature, and published in 1816. But by some unfortunate calamity the name lost its final letters and appeared as Cabbo P., and this error was copied in Merrill's Bazetteer of New Hampshire, published in Exeter, the following year. But this error was matched on a pocket map of the state published in Porsmouth between 1830 and 1840, in which the name was decapitated and given as Abbot P. But recently (January 3, 1917), the Board, having received representations concerning local usage continued through nearly two hundred years, has rendered a decision restoring the final s (but without the apostrophe), thus sanctioning the orthography Cobbetts Pond.