TITLE: Notice of Early Families of Candia:  

SOURCE: HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once known as Charmingfare; 
	     with notice of Some of the Early Families, by F.B. Eaton, Press of 
	     the Granite Farmer, James O. Adams, Printer, Manchester, N.H.  ©1852

				DUSTEN, MOSES*

Came to this town about the year 1768.  He was the son of Nathaniel Dusten 
and Triphena Haseltine, of Haverhill, Mass., and the great grandson of Thomas
Duston, and Hannah Emerson, of Haverhill, Mass., who was the renowned heroine
of Indian warfare, whose prowess was rewarded by a grant of fifty pounds from
the Massachusetts Legislature.  He was born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1744, and
in 1776 married Mary Buck, by whom he had ten children:  Jonathan, Lydia**,
Polly** Moses, Hannah, George W., Nathaniel, Betsey**, Sally, and Lydia.  
	Mr. Dusten was a blacksmith by trade.  When the news of the battle of
Lexington came to Candia, he threw his apron upon the anvil, and as is stated
in the first part of this work, was the first man to volunteer, following 
drummer Hill up and down the street until enough fell in to make a 
respectable company.
	He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in Col. Nathan Hale’s 
Regiment, and afterwards made a Captain, which rank he held until the close 
of the War, serving the whole seven years.  The watch which he carried during 
the time is now in possession of R.E. Patten, Esq.  Capt. Dusten died in 
1795, aged 51; his wife survived him thirty-two years, and died in 1827, aged
77 years.

* Spelled Dustin and Duston
** Died Young

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