William Jackson of Virginia was murdered on this spot by ship captain Thomas Carter of Newport, Rhode Island. Carter had been shipwrecked and left penniless, and when Jackson, also traveling north, overtook him, Jackson gave him money and the use of a horse. After they reached this place, at about midnight on January 1, 1751, Carter robbed and murdered his kind and trusting benefactor with a dagger. He threw Jackson into Narrow River, where a negro later found the body near the gibbet at the eastern foot of Tower Hill. Mrs. Nash, a wayside innkeeper who lived about ten miles west of Tower Hill, happened to be in the village when the body was found and identified it as Jackson's by a button she had sewn onto his vest only a few hours before he left her house, when Captain Carter was with him. Carter was arrested, tried and convicted at the village of Tower Hill on April 4, 1751, and on May 10, 1751, was hanged in chains on a gibbet beside the public highway at the eastern foot of Tower Hill. During boisterous winds at night, the shrieking of its chains was said to terrify many nearby residents and travelers, including the late Governor George Brown of Boston Neck, who told this writer that he himself had feared it as a youth while traveling weekly to the home of College Tom Hazard.