Incorporated on October 16, 1673, Dunstable,
Massachusetts, was purchased from the Wameset and
Naticook Indians for UK 20 sterling. It was named in
honor of Mrs. Edward Tyng, who had emigrated from a
community of the same name in England. The Tyngs were
early founders of Dunstable, a town that began in hardship. Every house in Dunstable began as a watch house, and every man was a soldier. Dunstable men were among the first to prepare...