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Gen. Jonathan Moulton House
Photo courtesy of
SeacoastNH Early Images.
Privately owned since the turn of the 20th century, this 1770s house was among the most grand in Revolutionary Era Hampton, NH. Self-made, a wealthy merchant, mill owner and land speculator, Jonathan Moulton was granted rights to over 80,000 acres in the NH Lakes Region that was then frontier. The town of Moultonborough bears his name today. Despite his success as a businessman, soldier and father of 15 children, Moulton is best known for the legends and ghost stories that surround his name. In the poem “The New Wife and the Old” by John Greenleaf Whittier, Gen, Moulton’s dead wife returns on the night he marries a young new bride Sarah Emery. Whittier wrote a series of very popular poems about the NH seacoast including ‘Tenting on the Beach” and ballads featuring the Isles of Shoals and convicted Hampton “witch” Goody Cole.
HOURS: Privately owned
WEBSITE: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/moultontoc.htm
ADMISSION: Not open to the public
ADDRESS: Hampton, NH 03802
DIRECTIONS: The Moulton house is on the corner of Route One/Lafayette Rd. and
Drakeside Road. It is at the south end of Route One after you pass
through the center of Hampton, just shortly after where the road
splits to a divided highway for a short distance.
LINKS:
General Moulton Devilish Story,
Whittier's Poem,
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