One of Hampton's more famous and colorful characters was General Jonathan Moulton. Many tales, legends and ghost stories have sprung up around the man, and some of the fact and the fiction can be read below:

A marker (not a gravestone) commemorating
General Moulton in the Pine Grove Cemetery
He was actually buried on his own property,
although no one today knows exactly where.

• The Moulton Tragedy

  This introduction to the epic lyrical poem by S. Foster Damon contains one of the best brief biographies of the General.

• The Devilish Fall of General Moulton

  "The New Hampshire 'Faust' was just a misunderstood rich guy" by J. Dennis Robinson of SeacoastNH.com, October 22, 2000.

• General Jonathan Moulton -- the man and the legend

  Written by Stillman M. Hobbs for Hampton's 325th Anniversary

• General Jonathan Moulton

  From a paper by Sarah Hobbs Lane, ca. 1893

• Moultonborough, NH

  A short sketch on Jonathan Moulton from the History of Carroll County, Moultonborough chapter.

• Moulton Annals

  A short sketch on Jonathan Moulton from the genealogy of the family titled "Moulton Annals", 1906.

• The Weare Papers and Gen. Moulton

  Opinions of the general by his contemporaries, from an article in The Granite Monthly, 1909, by F.B. Sanborn.

• The Moulton Fires, and Jonathan Swett v. Jonathan Moulton

  In less than three years between 1766 and 1769 Moulton lost four barns and his mansion house to fire, much of it to arson that may have been committed by Jonathan Swett of Hampton Falls or his allies in a long-running dispute they had with Moulton.

• Jonathan Moulton and the Devil

  From "A Book of New England Legends and Folklore" by Samuel Adams Drake, 1884.

• Moulton House and Its Ghosts

  By Willard de Lue in the Boston Sunday Globe, August 17 & 24, 1952.

• A house of history, mystery, legend and lore
  

  Written by Cheryl Lassiter, Hampton Union, Sept. 1, 2015

• The General Moulton House: A Chronicle of Many Lives

  Written by Judith A. Marden for The Bates Alumnus, April 1976.

• The Legendary Hero of Hampton: General Jonathan Moulton

  A 1938 Hampton Union column by William D. Cram, presenting an accounting of the legend of General Moulton and the devil.

• Satan -- And Abigail's Ghost

  Written by Alton Hall Blackington for New Hampshire Profiles, April 1961.

• Vignettes of General Jonathan Moulton

  Nine short newspaper articles by the Rev. Roland D. Sawyer. Their accuracy is not high.

• Colonel Moulton's Buildings Burned

  From Joseph Dow's History of Hampton

• General Moulton

  From Joseph Dow's History of Hampton

• A letter from Jonathan Moulton to the Town of Hampton

  Dated March 21, 1775

• A small excerpt on Jonathan Moulton

  From John Putnam Demos' "Entertaining Satan".

• The Boot of General Jonathan Moulton

  A 1973 poem by Dover High School student Cindy Vitko.