Col David Dunbar

  • Irish


Colonel David Dunbar was a polarizing Irish-born official whose actions left a lasting imprint on the mid-coast Maine frontier during the 1720s and 1730s. Appointed by King George II as Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods, Dunbar arrived at Pemaquid with an ambitious imperial charge: to safeguard the region's valuable white pines for the Royal Navy and to establish a new royal province he proposed to name Georgia. His efforts to rebuild Fort William Henry — renaming it Fort Frederick — and to settle the villages of Harrington, Walpole, and Townsend placed him squarely in the midst of a fierce jurisdictional struggle between the British Crown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, defining a turbulent era of contested borders, royal assertion and early Scots-Irish settlement. - AsNotedIn


Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1729/06/00 David Dunbar, a Scotch-Irishman, arrives at Pemaquid bearing a commission from King George II as Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods, and proceeds to lay out the design for a new city composed of three villages: Harrington, Walpole and Townsend. King's Surveyor Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site Bristol, ME
1729/06/00 His Majesty King George the Second's Surveyor of the King's Woods undertakes the rebuilding of Fort William Henry, thereafter bestowing upon it the new appellation of Fort Frederick. King's Surveyor Fort William Henry Bristol, ME
1729/06/00 David Dunbar, commissioned by His Majesty King George II, does ordain and establish the settlement of Walpole as part of the newly constituted city of Pemaquid, asserting royal authority in those eastern lands and setting the inhabitants in due order. King's Surveyor Walpole Maine
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