DOVER, a city of south-eastern New Hampshire, on the Cochecho river, Iom. N.W. of Portsmouth; the county seat of Strafford county. It is on Federal highway 4, and is served by the Boston and Maine Railroad and motorbus lines. The population was 13,029 in 192o (8o% native white), and was 13,573 in 1930 by the Federal census. It has abundant water power and large manu facturing industries, with an output in 1927 valued at $13,581,296. The leading products are cotton sheeting, woollen goods, leather belting, machinery and shoes. The assessed valuation of property in 1928 was $29,000,o00. A settlement was established in 1623 by Edward Hilton on Dover Point, 5m. S.E. of the Cochecho falls, and in 1633 several families under Captain Thomas Wiggin settled on Dover Neck (on the Piscataqua river, Im. above Dover Point) which for the first century, while shipbuilding was the im portant occupation, was the business centre of the town. With the development of manufacturing, business and population shifted to the Cochecho river, which is now the centre. For nearly half a century after 1641 the plantation (by will of the majority) was under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Between 1675 and 1725 the town suffered greatly from attacks by the Indians, notably on June 28, 1689. Dover was chartered as a city in 1855. At Dur ham, 5m. south-west, is the University of New Hampshire, established as an agricultural college in 1866, at Hanover; moved to Durham in 1893, following the death of Benjamin Thompson, a farmer of that town, who left to the college almost his entire estate; and incorporated as a university in