Article September 18, 1902 Issue

Marking of an Historic Spot

Nashua (N. H.) Daily Telegraph

Beneath the cloudless sky of an ideal September day Matthew Thornton chapter, D. A. R., dedicated a tablet, this morning (September 12), marking the site of the homestead of John Lovewell, one of the earliest settlers in Dunstable and who gave shelter to Hannah Duston when she arrived here after her escape from the Indians.

Fully a hundred members of the chapter and their friends assembled at the spot, which is just east of the second bridge over the Salmon brook, to take part in the exercises, and the programme was a very interesting one. Miss Katharine M. Thayer, acting as regent of the local chapter, had the exercises in charge.

The tablet, standing just to the right of the highway and beneath the shade of a sturdy young elm, is of granite and bears, in deep cut letters, the following inscription:—

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