(1731 - 1809)

Captain Daniel, second son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lamprey) Moulton, was born in 1731, and died Aug. 26, 1809. His father died when he was four years old, and he was apprenticed to a man who treated him harshly. About 1745, at the age of fourteen, he ran away and went to the new settlement in Maine, first to Saco and then to Scarborough, where he settled on the east side of Nonesuch river, near "Rocky Hill," opposite what is now known as the Daniel Carter place.

He was a blacksmith, and became the owner of large tracts of land, holding most of what is now Scarborough Corner School District, and it is said about two miles of Nonesuch meadows. He had a large square house and several large barns. He gave each of his children a farm with a large square house. In later years he paid a considerable sum in settlement for his "time" to the man to whom he had been apprenticed. He is mentioned in "Southgate's History of Scarborough," as one of the prominent men in the town after its second settlement. He was an especial favorite of Charles Pine, the hunger and Indian fighter, whose granddaughter he married, and Pine attempted by will to entail a tract of land upon Daniel and his issue.

He was active in revolutionary times, a captain in the militia and a member of the committees of correspondence and safety for Scarborough and held various town offices.

He married (first) April 25, 1750, Grace, daughter of John and Grace (Pine) Reynolds. Daniel and Grace, his wife, "owned the covenant" in the Second Parish Church, Oct. 29, 1753. She died Dec. 19, 1787, aged fifty-eight. He married (second) Hannah Beck Cotton, of Pepperellborough. She was admitted to the Second Parish church, April 5, 1789, and died Sept. 4, 1814.
Children, al by 1st wife:
Charles Pine, Jonathan, John, Lucy, a child (name unknown), Daniel, a child (name not recorded.)