Annual report, [1st]- [1896/97]- . n Thorndike Proctor place of later times. It was here that the firstschool v,as kept by Madam Daland, or Dealand, as it was sometimes old house was burned down about 1815. A large square brick housenow occupies the old site. Acioss the way still stands the old barn ofHoulton, 1898. The home of Thorndike Proctor, the first of that name, was at the RiverHead or Head of Waters River. He was the successor of Benjamin Scarlettand Samuel Endicott, whose widow he married. He was a prominent andleading citizen of affairs of his time and lived a long and u
Annual report, [1st]- [1896/97]- . n Thorndike Proctor place of later times. It was here that the firstschool v,as kept by Madam Daland, or Dealand, as it was sometimes old house was burned down about 1815. A large square brick housenow occupies the old site. Acioss the way still stands the old barn ofHoulton, 1898. The home of Thorndike Proctor, the first of that name, was at the RiverHead or Head of Waters River. He was the successor of Benjamin Scarlettand Samuel Endicott, whose widow he married. He was a prominent andleading citizen of affairs of his time and lived a long and useful life. Thehouse that he is supposed to have built about 17-50 is still standing at theentrance to the River Head from Andover Street. Beginning with the history of this old Felton house, I could not verywell hel]) saying some things about the homes that gathered around it. I may have exceeded my time in this description, but there is much in-teresting matter still left in connection with these old homes that is un-written. 10. THE FELTON HOUSES. Cut No. 1. The first house on Mt. Pleasant was built in 1644 byNathaniel Felton, who, with his mother Eleanor, received grants of landfrom Salem in 16^6, 37, and 39. This liouse passed to the children of Nathaniel Felton Sr., Elizabeth andNathaniel Jr. Nathaniel left it to his sou iSkelton, who sold it to his cousinSamuel in 1744. Samuel removed it to its present location between theyears 1746 and 49. It descended to his son Stephen whose widow married Nathaniel, son ofJonathan Felton (whose house was not far away in the rear.) Their sonNathaniel inherited it and his descendants have owned and occupied it tothis day it now bein^ in possession of Mrs. Harriet (Felton) Rhoades. Herbrother, the late Nathaniel Ward Felton, having been of the seventh gener-ation of Feltons and the Sixth Nathaniel to live in this interesting old house. Of the old tree near this house Mrs. Harriet (Felton) Rhoades writes asfollows:—From our earliest rem
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