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1. Jonah, born Nov. 19, 1738.
2. Abraham, born Feb. 4, 1741; died July 28, 1741.
3. Benoni, born Feb. 4, 1741; died July 23, 1741.
4. Abner, born March 6, 1743; resided in Sedgwick; died Dec. 29, 1831.
5. Mary, born July 5, 1745; died July 21, 1767.
6. Abigail, born Sept. 16, 1750; married Simeon Dodge, of Waltham, Mass.
7. Benjamin, born March 19, 1753; died Nov., 1784.
8. Sarah, born Sept. 29, 1756; died Oct. 12, 1764.
9. Abraham, born April 5, 1760.
Mr. Dodge married, second, Sarah Thorndike, May 29, 1770; she was born Dec. 21, 1731; died April 12, 1809. Children by the latter marriage were:
10. John Prince, born Aug. 21,- 1771; died July 21, 1827.
11. Reuben, born Feb. 19, 1773; married Sally Peters, daughter of John Peters, esq., Jan. 16, 1797; she was born Feb. 2, 1780; died Sept. 19, 1850, aged seventy years. He died Dec. 16, 1830, aged fifty-seven years and ten months. He was town clerk for twenty-four years; a selectman thirty- one years; treasurer fifteen years, and one of the foremost citizens of the town. He is supposed to have built the house now standing at the beginning of 1800, in which he and his wife resided until their death, and in which the follow- ing-named children were born to them:
1. Addison, born Feb. 25, 1799; died Sept. 4, 1808.
2. Charlotte, born Feb. 25, 1800; married Isaac Somes, of Mt. Desert.
3. Lucretia, born Feb. 6, 1802; married Salvin P. Jordan.
4. Elvira, born April 17, 1804; married Jeremiah Nichols.
5. Sally Prince, born Dec. 12, 1806; mar- ried first, Capt Moses Clough;' second, Weston Merritt.
6. Addison, born Jan. 16, 1809; married Mary Newell; drowned in Union river June 27, 1864.
7. Julia, born Nov. 22, 1810; married William P. Abbott; moved to Illinois.
8. Mary Peters, born March 123, 1813; died Oct. 25, 1815.
Reuben George Washington, born March 15, 1815; married first, Betsey J. Cheever; second, Laguira Morgan; third, Caroline A. Allen. He died May 29, 1886.
10. Mary Peters, born April 24, 1817, married Dr. Lyman Hall.
11. Almira Ellis, born Sept. 4, 1819; married 1st Mr. Lord; 2nd George Somes.
12. Emily Walker, born August 25, 1821; married John Langdon and, died Dec. 1, 1870.
13. Harriet Maria, born Feb. 23, 1824.
Reuben George Washington Dodge suc- ceeded his father in occupancy and owner- ship of the house and place. He was an influential citizen of the town, interested in shipbuilding, in historical and genea- logical research, etc., etc. He built the bark "Antioch" upon the shore near his residence owned at Castine, Boston, and went to California, where she was sold and ran in the lumber trade for some years and afterwards wrecked. The bark "R. G. W. Dodge" was named for him, in which he was part owner, and he was also interested in other vessels.
By his first wife, Betsey Jackson, he had four children, as follows:
1. Agnes Ilanette, born Dec. 1, 1849; died March 22, 1859.
2. Anna Gardner, born Jan. 17, 1852; married a Mr. Sawtelle; resides at Haver- hill, Mass.
3. Sarah E. S., born Nov. 13, 1853.
4. George A., born June 16, 1856.
Child of Laguira Morgan, second wife:
5. Agnes L., born May 30, 1859.
Children of Caroline A. Allen, third wife:
6. Amy Maud, born March 1, 1866.
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7. Cora, born Nov. 10, 1867.
8. Ernest Fitz Allen, born Jan. 29, 1870.
9. Carrie McNair, born April 1, 187 -.
Mrs. Betsey Jackson Dodge died April 7, 1857; Mrs. Laguira Dodge Sept. 4, 1859, and Mrs. Carrie Allen Dodge a few years ago. R. G. W. Dodge died, as before stated, May 30, 1886. The house and place are still owned by the Dodge heirs, who use the house a few months each year as a summer place. This completes the de- scription of the old places along the shore road from the Falls district to the village, the other houses to the corner of Main street being of modern design and build. THE CLOUGH AND FREDERICK PARKER NEIGHBORHOOD.
Upon the right side of Clough's hill stood for many years a story-and-half- house painted red, with barn and out- buildings, owned by Asa Clough, sr., and built by him when he first came to the town about 1795, and torn down twenty- five or more years ago.
Asa Clough was born at Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 25, 1764; died Jan. 2, 1851, in his eighty-seventh year. He married Abigail Pecker, Nov. 27, 1789. She was born at Bradford, Mass., Nov. 27, 1766, and died March 16, 1854, in her eighty-eighth year. They had a family of ten children, as follows:
1. Daniel, born April 11, 1790; married Polly Tenney.
2. Cheever Russell, born July 20, 1792; lost at sea when a young man.
3. Sally, born Nov. 5, 1794; married first Benjamin Clay; second John Osgood.
4. John, born Jan. 27, 1797; married Jane Limeburner.
5. Asa, born Jan. 8, 1799; married first Abigail Sinclair; second Louis Ray.
6. Leonard, born Sept. 3, 1801; married Mary Jane Wood.
7. James, born Sept. 3, 1803; married Mary Marshall Carman.
8. Lydia, born Oct. 22, 1805; married Putnam Ingalls.
9. Zelotes, born Nov. 24, 1807; married Jane Grover.
10. Louisa, born Sept. 27, 1811; married Isaac Merrill.
Asa Clough, sr., was a farmer owning a large farm upon both sides of the main road extending from the line of the Wood farms to that of Jeremiah Stover on the
west, and to his son Daniel's on the east, amounting to more than a hundred acres. He was hardworking and industrious, as it was necessary for one to be with a family of ten children, and his sons were like him in habits of industry.
Nearly opposite his house his son Zelotes built a house previous to 1840, where he resided and reared a family of twelve children. His wife's maiden name was Jane Grover, to whom he was married Oct. 1, 1831. She was the daughter of the wife of Robert Robertson, sr., by a former husband, and resided with the Robertson family until her marriage. When the writer was born she nursed his mother. She then was living with her mother's family in the house that stood in the upper part of the field of the writer's father, afterwards moved and joined to his house as an L, as previously related. Mrs. Clough was fond of calling the writer her boy, from the above circumstance.
Zelotes Clough carried on his father's farm, and was a hardworking, good- natured man, whom the boys of the neighborhood were fond of and he of them. The writer can never forget the corn-huskings at his place and the many pleasant evenings spent at his house in the years of long ago when he and his wife were in their prime, surrounded by a young and growing family of children, the names of whom were as follows:
1. George Russell, born Nov. 11, 1832; lost at sea in 1853.
2. Mary Susan, born Feb. 18, {1834; died at Chelsea, Mass .. Aug., 1874.
3. Erastus Parker, born Jan. 3, 1836.
4. Alvaro Jewett, born Dec. 8, 1837.
5. Robert Bruce, born July 25, 1840; died at Callas, Peru, March, 1869.
6. Leonard Foster, born Dec. 26, 1841.
7. Ruby Ann, born June 27, 1843; died at Chelsea, Mass., Feb. 12, 1867.
8. Minerva Brown, born March 4, 1845.
9. Edgar, born Jan. 5, 1847.
10. Parker Granville, born Jan. 14, 1849.
11. Charlotte Gordon, born Feb. 25, 1851.
12. Georgiana, born Jan. 9, 1854.
Mr. and Mrs. Clough lived to reach more than four score years. Their house is still standing.
The next house to that of Zelotes Clough was of two stories, with a square roof, owned and built by Jeremiah Stover. He
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was born in Penobscot Dec. 5, 1770; came to Blue Hill a young man, built the house referred to before 1800. He married, Dec. 16, 1793, Abigail Devereux. She was born Nov. 11, 1770, and died Jan. 8, 1854, in her eighty-fourth year. Her husband died March 16, 1824, in his fifth-fourth year. He was a farmer and tanner and currier. The family consisted of nine children, as follows:
1. Lois Hibbert, born April 20, 1794; died June 19, 1837.
2. Abigail, born May 24, 1796; married Moses Pillsbury.
3. Jonathan, born Oct. 15, 1798; died Jan. 27, 1872.
4. Hannah, born March 15, 1801; mar- ried Capt. Joshua Norton.
5. Newton, born Aug. 23, 1803; married Lois Dodge, of Sedgwick.
6. Jeremiah, born April 9, 1806; married Louisa Lord.
7. Lydia, born July 16, 1808; married Herrick Allen.
8. Cynthia, born March 22, 1811; died Oct. 16, 1812.
9. Martha Luther, born Oct. 23, 1814; married Elvira Hopkins.
Jeremiah Stover, head of this family, died, and the house and place continued to be occupied by his widow and son Jeremiah, he succeeding to his father's business of farmer and tanner.
Jeremiah, jr., pulled down the old house and erected upon its site, about 1840, the house now standing. Mr. Stover was not a first-class currier, his leather losing in snow water its color and turning gray, which led Robert Robertson, sr., to call it "Jerry's tripe". Before his death he gave up that branch of business, and devoted himself to farming. The farm was upon the west side of the road between Asa Clough and John Clough, and not of large dimensions. The family of Jeremiah Stover, jr., consisted of nine children, as follows:
1. Jonathan, born Nov. 25, 1834; died Dec. 1857.
2. Sarah Eliza, born Oct. 28, 1836; died Jan. 7, 1860.
3. Albion Paris, born April 8, 1840; died March 7, 1860.
4. Harlan Page, born April 8, 1840.
5. Newton, born April 8, 1842.
6. George Gilbert, born Dec. 6, 1847.
7. Byron Varnum, born April 15, 1849.
8. Frank Wellington, born March 3, 1850.
9. Ida M., born Dec. 20, 1855.
Jeremiah Stover died Jan. 14, 1882, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Louisa Lord, died Nov. 16, 1866. The house and place are still owned and occupied by members of the Stover family.
THE DANIEL CLOUGH HOUSE AND PLACE upon the east side of the highway and nearly opposite the Stover place is the next in order to be described. Daniel Clough was the first child of Asa and Abigail (Pecker) Clough born April 11, 1790; mar- ried Polly, eldest daughter of Dr. Nathan and Mary (Carleton) Tenney, May 24, 1818. She was born April 3, 1797; died Dec. 8, 1858; he died April 2, 1867, aged seventy- seven years. He was a sea captain in his younger years and commanded among other vessels the three-masted schooner "Magnolia" built at Bluehill in 1833, the second vessel of that rig known. In after life he gave attention to the management of his farm. The house he lived in was built by him about the time of his mar- riage, say about 1820, and is still standing, in good repair, and occupied by his youngest son, Charles Carroll Clough and family, who also own the farm of his grandfather, Asa Clough. The children of Capt. Daniel and Polly (Tenney) Clough were : 1334580
1. Caroline, born Nov. 30, 1818; married Capt. William Walker, half brother of the writer, June 24, 1836.
2. Mary Tenney, born Nov. 1, 1820; married George W. Brown Jan. 11, 1840 and died at Ellsworth in 1852.
3. David Daniel, born Feb. 26, 1826; re- moved to Portland where he was twice married, his two wives dying, leaving no children; he died a few years ago.
4. Augustine Washington, born Oct. 9, 1831; was a captain in the War of the Re- bellion; married at Portland in 1865; had two daughters; he and wife died a few years since at Everett, Mass.
Charles Carroll, born July 7, 1837; mar- ried Emeline S., daughter of Johnson Wood, May 24, 1859; they had three children born to them, viz :- Harriet Gertrude, Feb. 28, 1861; Bessie Carroll, Sept. 2, 1872; Daisey Lou, Dec. 22, 1878.
The house and family of Capt. Daniel
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Clough were familiar to the writer in boy- hood, for beside a marriage relation, David Daniel was near his age, his schoolmate playmate and intimate friend, which threw them much into each other's com- pany and formed a lasting friendship which only death was able to sever.
Capt. Clough played the flageolet, which was a source of pleasure to the boys who had an ear or fancy for music. The halls, rooms and chambers of that house carry the writer back to the years of his child- hood, and with the eye of memory he sees the occupants as they were then, and with the ear of imagination he hears their voices in conversation and the sound of the hautboy mingling their musical notes of gladness.
THE NEWTON STOVER HOUSE AND PLACE, a little farther along, and upon the other side of the highway, is the next to claim attention. It was built by Newton Stover, the son of Jeremiah, sr., about 1831, and was originally plastered upon the outside instead of being clapboarded, but finding in after years that plaster did not stand the climate well, it was clapboarded over.
Newton Stover's wife was a daughter of "Deputy" Dodge, of Sedgwick, whom he married in 1831. They resided in this house ten or more years, and then removed to Sedgwick village, where Mr. Stover continued to reside until his death at an advanced age.
In this house his first child, Almira Emily, was born March 11, 1832. Whether they had other children or not the record is silent, and the writer does not know.
Mr. Stover was a member of the Baptist church, as were all the Stover's of that family, and essentially a religious man. He was the writer's teacher in the Sunday school held in the schoolhouse at the Tide Mills, and the writer can testify to his earnestness and zeal in that work. The tones of his voice, the expression of his face and the earnestness with which he applied the scripture lessons in his teach- ings, rise up in the mind of the writer, as proof of what he aimed to do for his class.
Capt. Jerry Jones is remembered by the writer as the next occupant of the house after Mr. Stover moved with his family to Sedgwick. Capt. Jones was a sea-faring man, born in Brooksville, mar- ried a daughter of Thomas Lymburner and came to Blue Hill to reside that his
wife might be near to her sister, Mrs. John Clough, when he was away at sea.
Capt. Jones lived here a number of years, just how many the writer cannot say. After him others occupied the house, and in 1859 Mrs. Caroline Walker and her two children, when the writer spent a few weeks there with her.
The house is still standing and occupied, but by whom the writer does not know, as it is the old residents and houses of the town that he is engaged in describing.
THE CAPT. EZRA DODGE PLACE,
opposite the last described, now claims attention. Capt. Dodge was the son of Jonah Dodge, of Sedgwick, and brother of Merrill and Jonah already spoken of. He was a sailor and sea captain, and in early manhood made a voyage in a ship as a foremast hand from Boston to Canton, China, and return, in the days when men who had made China voyages were few as compared with later years.
Hearing him recite what he saw, caused the writer when a boy to resolve to make a voyage to that country when he became a man. The writer was cook with him for a trip or two in the old sloop "Fame", with wood cargoes for the lime-kilns at Rockland, and knew Capt. Dodge as a kindly and honorable man.
Capt. Dodge married Deborah Curtis, of Newbury Neck, and came to Blue Hill to reside in the '30s, at about which time he built the house in question. Old houses, like persons, have an individuality of their own, and were they empowered with speech, what interesting stories they could tell of the lives and characters of their occupants! The children of Ezra and Deborah (Curtis) Dodge were:
1. Roscoe, born July 26, 1837; died July 24, 1838.
2. Jane Medora, born March 27, 1839.
3. Roscoe Green, born July 10, 1841; died in the army July, 1862.
4. Flora Ann, born Sept. 7, 1843; died Jan. 16, 1871, at Surry.
5. Ezra Curtis, born March 8, 1846.
6. Azor Colon, born July 6, 1848.
7. David Solon, born Aug. 29, 1850; died Sept. 11, 1889.
8. Eugene Howard, born Sept. 18, 1854; died Aug. 1, 1858.
Capt. Ezra Dodge died Oct. 17, 1875, and his widow July 20, 1876. So far as the
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writer is aware, the house and place are owned and occupied by their children at this writing, 1905.
THE JOHN CLOUGH PLACE,
on the west side of the highway, is the next to claim attention. The John Clough house was built by him in 1822, the year of his marriage to Jane Limeburner, of Brooksville, and in it he and his wife took up their residence when married, as it had been completed and furnished in antici- pation of that event. It is still standing. John Clough was the fourth child of Asa Clough, sr., born Jan. 27, 1797; a stone mason and farmer. He was for many years a highway surveyor of the town, and ac- counted to be a good builder and repairer of roads and highways.
The children of John and Jane (Lime- burner) Clough were as follows:
1. Rufus, born Dec. 30, 1823. He was a sailor and sea captain, married Margaret Parker, foster sister of the writer. He was drowned in San Francisco, Cal., in 1855, by falling through a hole in the wharf.
2. Joanna Allen, born Nov. 8, 1825; mar- ried first, Capt. Peter Powers, of Deer Isle; second, Asa Hutchinson, of the noted Hutchinson family singers; third, a Mr. Bittenbender, of Chicago, Ill., where she died in 1897, leaving three children by her first husband. She, Almira Wood and the writer were rivals in school at spelling in the days when the spelling classes stood in a row in front of the teacher's desk, taking their placee in the class ac- cording to their proficiency and rank in spelling, and one of the three was usually at the head with the other two next in the line.
3. Julia Ann Limeburner, born Jan. 21, 1829; married Hiram Jones; had no chil- dren and died in California.
4. Ashman J., born May 30, 1829; mar- ried Sarah B. daughter of Ira Witham. He was a sea captain, lost at sea while mas- ter of the ship "Romance of the Seas" on & voyage from China to San Francisco in 1864; the ship not being heard from after leaving China.
5. Maria Louise, born March 5, 1831; married Otis Witham Nov. 8, 1857, son of Ira and removed to California.
6. Margaret Jane, born March 9, 1833; died August 14, 1834.
7. John Russell, born May 26, 1838; married Hattie V. Darling, daughter of Col. William H. Darling; he died a few years ago.
John Clough, father of these children, died Oct. 13, 1883, aged eighty-six years and ten months, and Jane, his wife, died Aug. 12, 1881, aged about eighty years.
The John Clough house is still owned by his descendants, and there stands near it a small house built for and occupied by his youngest son and family before the death of the parents.
Hiram Jones, who married Julia A. L. Clough, was a sailor and sea captain, who lived at one time with his wife's father and after that in the Newton Stover house near by. He died April 30, 1853.
THE MOSES CARLETON PLACE,
on the other side of the road, nearly op- posite the John Clough house, is the next to be described. Whether Moses Carle- ton built the house or not the writer can- not state positively, but he and his family lived there after removing from the Allen neighborhood, about 1830, to the time of his death in October, 1838, aged seventy- nine years. As his family record and his- tory has previously been given, further remarks thereon are not needed here.
Jonah Dodge and family lived in this house for a few years before and after the death of Mr. Carleton, and then removed to the Colburn place on the shore of the "Little Bay" as already described.
The next occupant of the house was Capt. Samuel P. Holt, son of Samuel P. and Lydia (Lowell) Holt, born Sept. 13, 1820. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph jr., and Phebe (Holt) Osgood, Aug. 29, 1844. She was born Jan. 28, 1820; died June 4, 1851.
He was brought up by his grandfather, Jedediah Holt. He went to sea and be- came master of several Blue Hill vessels, and died at the Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York, fifteen or twen- ty years ago. His children, born in this house, were Frank, born April 10, 1845, and Mary Jane, born March 31, 1850. After the death of his wife, Capt. Holt vacated the house and it was bought and occupied by Ingerson McIntire, son of Jeremiah and Lydia (Knowles) McIntire.
He was born Dec, 11, 1822; married, first, Elizabeth Cousins, by whom he had
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a son Frank, born March 5, 1852. He mar- ried, second, Mehitabie Varnum, who bore him four children, viz .: Edward W., born Sept. 22, 1858; a son, Sept. 7, 1860 and a daughter same date, both of whom died in infancy, and Harvey Howard born July 9,1862.
Mr. McIntire took down the old house, and built upon its site the two-story house now standing and occupied by his son and family.
The writer remembers Mr. and Mrs. Morse Carleton, their daughter Polly and son Samuel, Jonah Dodge, wife and chil- dren, Capt. Samuel P. Holt and wife and Ingerson McIntire, all occupants of this place and all gone to their rest.
He remembers, too, the yellow birch trees standing by the roadside just north of the house, which in the summer of 1904 appeared to him about as they did seventy or more years ago when he was a lad, and he thought of the surrounding changes while they seemed to preserve their vitality.
THE JOHNSON WOOD PLACE
is the next to claim attention and a de- scription. The house was built by John- son Wood sometime between 1830 and 1835. Mr. Wood was the son of Robert Haskell and Mary (Coggins) Wood, and was born July 26, 1790; his father having been the son of Joseph Wood, the first settler of the town.
Johnson Wood married Hannah F. Peters, Jan. 24, 1827, daughter of Jeremiah and Sally Peters. She was born Nov. 19, 1806, and died Nov. 5, 1870. He died Aug. 31, 1861, aged seventy-one years. The names and births of their children were as follows:
1. Harriet Augusta, born Nov. 26, 1827; died Nov. 30, 1857.
2. Maria Flint, born Sept. 12, 1829.
3. Reuben Dodge, born March 31, 1832; married Nancy A. Carleton.
4. Sarah Peters, born April 17, 1836; married Henry F. Peters.
5. Emeline S., born April 23, 1838; mar- ried Charles Connell Clough.
6. Abby S., born Nov. 28, 1840.
7. Haskell J., born Feb. 8, 1844.
8. Henry H., born Aug. 6, 1846.
9. Clara A., born Oct. 14, 1849.
Johnson Wood was a mason and brick- layer, a worthy, industrious and upright
man. Since his death the place has re- mained in possession of of his children.
THE FREDERICK PARKER PLACE
is the next in order, with a large, square, two-story house upon the left of the road with a fine lawn in front; the barn, now gone, stood on the opposite side of the road. Just when this house was built is not known to the writer, but it was prob- ably as early as 1820.
The farm connected with the house and barn extended on both sides of the main road for some distance, and was probably that of Robert Parker, Frederick's father, who came to the town from Andover, Mass., about 1765.
Robert Parker was born March 13, 1745; married Ruth, daughter of Joseph Wood, the first settler, Nov. 29, 1773. She was born in Beverly, Mass., Dec. 18, 1753; died Jan. 20, 1825, aged seventy-two years. Her husband died Feb. 12, 1818, aged seventy- three years. He was a brother of Peter Ezra and Col. Nathan Parker. The chil- dren of Robert Parker were:
1. Samuel, born March 9, 1774; married first, Lydia Parker; second, Mary Mathews.
2. Nabby, born Jan. 6, 1776; died Dec. 19, 1781.
3. Moses, born Feb. 1, 1778; died Aug. 13, 1801.
4. Robert, born Feb. 3, 1781; died Dec. 19, 1781.
5. Robert, born Dec. 1, 1782; died at sea.
6. Simeon, born July 24, 1785; married Lydia Faulkner Stevens.
7. Frederick, born Oct. 30, 1788; mar- ried Harriet Haskell.
8. Nabby, born March 12, 1792; married Robert Haskell Wood.
9. Edith, born March 3, 1795; married Stephen Holt.
Frederick Parker was the seventh child of Robert and Ruth (Wood) Parker, of the family above, born Oct. 30, 1788, and died April 6, 1867, aged seventy-eight years, five months and six days. He mar- ried Harriet Haskell, born in Beverly, Mass., March 1, 1793, on April 18, 1818. She died May 1, 1877, aged eighty-four years and two months. Their children were:
1. Sarah Ellingwood, born April 23, 1820.
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2. Harriet Maria, born June 2, 1822; died June 27, 1879.
3. Andrew Haskell, born May 11, 1824; moved to Rockland.
4. Abigail Sinclair, born Dec. 9, 1827; married and lived in Boston.
5. Mary Ann Haskell, born Oct. 6, 1829; married and lived in Boston.
6. Robert Harlow, born Jan. 14, 1835.
Frederick Parker was a farmer and a worthy man. He and his family were well known to the writer in his youth. After his death the place was sold to Fred A. Fisher, and was occupied some years by Rev. Mr. Tripp a Baptist clergyman. It lay idle after that until bought and put in repair by Mrs. Kline, of Cleveland, O., whose sister and family use it for a sum- mer home.
THE GEORGE CHOATE PLACE,
a half mile west in the rear of the Fred- erick Parker house, is the next to be con- sidered and described. That place lay away from the main road, and was reached by following a cart-path across field or pasture of Mr. Parker, through gates and bars. It consisted of a one-story house, painted red, a small barn and a few acres of land. Whether Mr. Choate built the house or that it is still standing the writer does not know. [This house was supposed to have been built by a Mr. Davis.]
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