Looking North from Belfry of Congregational Church. established themselves, cleared the land, set out their orchard, when, in 1746, the year of the massacre of many Concord settlers by the Indians, which is commemorated by a monument erected on the Hopkinton road, they were warned of a similar disaster impending to them, by two friends from the Rumford fort, to which place they, with their families, hastily fled for safety. On their return on the morrow they found that they had experienced a marvelous. escape, for their buildings had been burned, cattle slain, and their apple trees that had reached a bearing condition, cut down, with one solitary exception.

beasts all about them, and liable to be surprised at any moment by the shrill warwhoop of the savage, while the wilderness shut them completely in.

It was not long, however, before much progress had been made in clearing away the forest, and the borders of civilization were extended.

The tract of territory embraced in what is now Dunbarton is first mentioned in a diary kept by Captain Pecker, in 1725, while in pursuit of Indians, and, in 1733, when it was granted and surveyed as a township known as Narragansett, No. 6, by the Massachusetts General Court. In 1735 Capt. Samuel Gorham of Plymouth, Eng., secured the grant