Abraham Jaquith House

Abraham Jaquith House
Location: Billerica, Massachusetts
Built: 1725
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style: Colonial, Other
Governing body: Private
MPS: First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP Reference#: 90000166[1]
Added to NRHP: March 14, 1991

Abraham Jaquith House was a historic colonial house at 161 Concord Road in Billerica, Massachusetts.

History

In 1653 George Farley, built the westernmost portion of the structure. Farley was a clothier, farmer, and early Baptist dissident from the state Congregationalist (Puritan) church. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Boston.[2][3] The house was used as a garrison in 1676 during King Philip's War.[4] Abraham Jaquith IV significantly expanded the house around 1725. Jaquith was given the home by Samuel Farley, who was both his wife's cousin and his adopted charge.[5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. In 2000, building owner Peter Jaquith Casey had the house disassembled and stored in New Hampshire in order to preserve it.[5]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ http://www.fulkerson.org/farley.html
  3. ^ Henry Allen Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts: with a Genealogical register (A. Williams and Co., 1883) http://books.google.com/books?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  4. ^ Clarence Woodward Fisher, Genealogy of Joseph Fisher, and his descendants: and of the allied families of Farley, Farlee, Fetterman, Pitner, Reeder and Shipman (Presses of E.H. Lisk, 1890) pg. 154 http://books.google.com/books?id=cadaq3gVpygC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  5. ^ a b Kartak, Joanne. "The Jaquiths: Family of Patriots". http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qvarizona/jaquith.html. Retrieved 2008-10-21. 

See also

Topics
Lists by states
Lists by territories
Lists by associated states
Other
  • Category:National Register of Historic Places
  • Portal:National Register of Historic Places