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 New Hampshire 'Faust' was just a misunderstood rich guy" by J. Dennis Robinson of SeacoastNH.com, October 22, 2000. Also see this later article by the same author.