The flat, barge-like vessel in the center of the Town Seal portrays the Piscataqua River Gundalow, a work horse of river transportation. It was of shallow draft, and had ample cargo space to carry bricks, wood for the kilns, lumber, farm produce, and southern cotton from the port of Portsmouth to upriver mills.

The arrows in the stumps commemorate early Indian massacres. The flintlock musket, powder horn and plough, abandoned in the furrow, honor the embattled farmer ancestors and every generation since who have served in all the wars of the Colony and the Republic.

The spears of grass surrounding the emblem are the feed grass timothy, which was first discovered by Europeans on the Newington shores of the Piscataqua.