[256] Trunnel Country. Mentioned June 23, 1701, when Maturin Ricker had a grant of 30 acres "up in the Trunnill Contrey." It was laid out to his son Joseph Dec. 4, 1721, "at a place called the Trunnill countrey-- on the east side of a way that leads from Quamphegan to gildins bridge." Joseph Ricker of Berwick, May 10, 1754, conveyed to Meturin Ricker of "Summersworth," 30 acres of land laid out to said Joseph Dec. 4, 1721, "which land lyeth at a place called ye Trunnal country," beginning at a white oak on the east side of the way that leads from Quamphegan to Golding's bridge. The Trunnel country seems to have been the marshy region in the western part of old Somersworth, but the name has not been perpetuated.
