History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . was Mr. John Huntington, perhaps before 1835. Melived there many years. He was a hatter, and built a shopon the south side of the lot. Before 1838, Mr. Lysander Marsh built a house on thenorth side of this home lot, and resided there, and I sup-pose the house is still standing. The next house on the site of Mr. Campbells house wasthe dwelling of Dea. John Montague, a descendant in thethird generation of Dea. Samuel Montague, a first settler,who built the house. His
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . was Mr. John Huntington, perhaps before 1835. Melived there many years. He was a hatter, and built a shopon the south side of the lot. Before 1838, Mr. Lysander Marsh built a house on thenorth side of this home lot, and resided there, and I sup-pose the house is still standing. The next house on the site of Mr. Campbells house wasthe dwelling of Dea. John Montague, a descendant in thethird generation of Dea. Samuel Montague, a first settler,who built the house. His son Caleb was married and re-sided in the house, and about 1825 he gave it up to him andremoved. The brick house on the north side of this homestead (nowMilford Clarks) was built by Mr. Seth Warner, about 1834,and he lived there for many years after 1838. He was brotherof Eleazer Warner, Jr. The next house, that of Mr. Thomas Clark, is in its frontexterior much as it was seventy years ago. It was built, Ithink, by his father, Dea. Jedediah Clark, who died in 1800,having lived on the place forty years or more. All the chil-. A Shawl of the Colonial Period. APPENDIX. 665 dren of Mr. Thomas Clark were living at home (exceptFranklin) when I first remember the place, and his son Fran-cis, who succeeded him, was married and died in 1832. Clark and her son Jedediah were living there in1838. The next house, standing on the site of the dwelling ofthe late N. ±\. Smith, was known as Uncle Cottons RedHouse. It was owned by Mr. Cotton Graves, and was prob-ably built by his grandfather, Benjamin Graves, a set-tler. It was a two-story house, and I think had a gambrelroof, and at some remote period had been painted red. Ithad various tenants, generally for short periods. In the next house, which was a two-story house, paintedwhite, standing where the house built by Dea. Albert Ho-bart now stands, lived Mr. Cotton Graves. In the yard southof the house were two or three fine
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