Who Lived Here?
The names and occupations of this house's known residents show how much
history a single house can hold in 200 years. How much history does your
home hold?
- Abraham Choate, miller and maritime merchant, wife
Sarah, children Nehemiah, Abraham, Sally, John, Francis, Aaron, Moses, Rufus
Lathrop
1757-1772
- Isaac Dodge, miller and merchant,
wife Elizabeth, children Nathaniel,
Elizabeth, Rebecca, Priscilla, Sarah, Mary
1772-1777
- Abraham Dodge, ship captain and merchant, first wife
Abigail, second wife Bethiah, children Abigail, Abraham, Rebecca, and Bethiah,
servant Chance
1777-1789
- Nathaniel Baker, mariner, and wife
1789-1791
- John Appleton, Jr., farmer
1791-1798
- Daniel Thurston, wife Margaret
Appleton Thurston
1798-1817
- Margaret Appleton Thurston, widow
1817-1822
- Josiah Caldwell, music teacher,
real estate
dealer, lumber merchant,
and railroad station superintendent,
wife Lucy,
adopted daughter Margaret
1822-1865
- Susan Mears Brown, daughter Abby Ann
1850
- Maria Denney, student
1850
- Catherine Lynch, laundress,
daughter Mary,
millworker
1870-1891
- Lizzie L. Lynch, millworker
1891
- William Dawson, house painter,
wife Elizabeth Dawson, children Mary
and John
1870-1872
- Elizabeth Dawson, servant, children Mary and John
1872-1876
- Nicolas Donovan, millworker
1880s-1890s
- Mary Wilkins, millworker
1877-1882
- Edward Morris and wife
1883-1884
- John Morgan and wife
1884-1885
- Agnes Roberts
1888-1891
- Thomas H. Roberts
1891
- Edward F. Riley, millworker,
wife Catherine, five children
1885-1896
- Fred Buzzell, handyman, wife Martha, daughter Susie
1905-1925
- Harry Crossley, millworker
1906
- Jesse Jedrey, policeman, wife Maude, daughters Mildred and Doris
1907-1923
- Garland Jean, mill foreman, wife Anne
1923-1924
- Herbert Goodhue, clammer, wife Agnes
1932-1939
- Andrew Scott, handyman, wife Mary, children Ann, Roy, and Andrew
1927-1942
- Mary Scott, school custodian, son Roy
1942-1961
- Richard Lynch, factory worker,
wife Ann Scott Lynch, son Richard
1941-1949
- Ann Kenney, retired servant
1939-1949
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Demolition, 1963
Courtesy Library of Congress
...that many of the people who lived in this house over two centuries made changes to the structure? By carefully examining photographs made when the house was dismantled in 1963, architectural historians have been able to determine what some of these changes have been. Go to House Clues to find out more.
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