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  History of Dunstable, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1656 - Dunstable is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1661 - The original township of Dunstable, granted in 1661, consisted of two hundred square miles,
  including the Massachusetts towns of Dunstable, Pepperell, Townsend and Tyngsborough, the New Hampshire towns of Hudson, Nashua and Hollis, and parts ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1673 - Dunstable is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1691 - September 28 - Massacre
  SOURCE: History of the Old Township of Dunstable: Including Nashua, Nashville, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, and Merrimac, N. H.; Dunstable and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - DUNSTABLE. [Pop. 603. Inc. 1673.]
  Dunstable, though now a small town, once comprehended Pepperell, Tyngsborough, and much land that is now in New Hampshire.
  
  This town was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Dunstable
  This town was incorporated in 1663. This is a small township; the land is rather level, and. the soil is light and sandy. Nashua river forms the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Dunstable
  Dunstable, a post-township of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 30 miles N. W. from Boston, on the W. side of Merrimack river. Population, 590.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1859
  DUNSTABLE, a township in Middlesex co., in the state of Massachusetts, U.S., 31 m. NW of Boston. Pop. 603.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
•  1869 - Strict Laws
  At Dunstable, Mass., in 1651, dancing at weddings was forbidden, and in 1660 William Walker was imprisoned for a month for courting a maid without...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Dunstable Massachusetts, 1890
  Dunstable is a quiet rural town on the northern border of Middlesex County, 33 miles northwest of Boston. Its boundary on the north is Nashua, N. H., ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Dunstable
  Dunstable, diin'sta-b'l, a post-hamlet in Dunstable township, Middlesex co., Mass., 6 miles by rail S. of Nashua, N.H. It has 2 churches, 2...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Dunstable Center, Dunstable, Mass.
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  Depot Street looking East, Dunstable, Mass.
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  View of the Common from Town Hall, 1910
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• 1916
  Dunstable, a post-township (town) of Middlesex co., Mass., 6 miles by rail S. of Nashua, N.H. Pop. in 1900, 427.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
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  Bird's Eye View of Dunstable, Mass. from Ballgrounds
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  Evangelical Congregational Church
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