Glimpses of the Past - The garden lots in Morristown (St. Stephen) granted to John DUNBAR and associates were 107 in number. The 54 in the western division called Marks division, excepting lot 42 and the 53 in the eastern or Jones Division. (see original for list of grantees) ... John Dunbar, who is named on the grant, is said to have been the first person to suffer capital punishment in the county. He was a grantee of St. Andrews as well as Morristown, but it does not appear that he ever became a resident of either place. The traditional account of his crime and punishment is as follows: He was living on Campobello along the year 1798 and worked in a saw mill there. His wife had a gold coin of which he wanted to take possession in order to buy rum. Upon her refusing to give it to him, he killed her. He was arrested, taken to St. Andrews, tried and found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Previous to the day fixed for his execution, he escaped from jail and made his way to Bay Side, seven miles from the shiretown where he found employment with the son of Capt. BRADFORD to work in the adjacent woods. The captain was away from home at the time but on his return when he saw Dunbar he recognized him as the escaped prisoner. He communicated his discovery to Jailer HITCHINGS, who came out to Bay Side, arrested Dunbar and took him back to jail. It was not long until, through the assistance of one GREENLOW, a confined debtor, he again escaped and made his way to Boston. A man named BENTLEY, a resident of St. Andrews, afterwards went to Boston and one day, as he was passing a house on a street in that city, he was struck on the head by a shingle. On looking up to see whence the shingle came, he recognized the man engaged in shingling the roof to be Dunbar. Bentley gave information which led to Dunbar being once more arrested. He was in time brought back to his old quarters to St. Andrews jail and the next time he emerged from its precincts was on the march to the gallows on which he expiated his crime.