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The Abraham Jaquith House, also known as Farley Garrison house, was a historic colonial house at 161 Concord Road in Billerica, Massachusetts. ==History== The Abraham Jaquith house was perhaps better known as the Farley Garrison house. It is thought to be one of the oldest houses in New England still standing, though no longer located on its original site in Billerica, Massachusetts.〔Map, Jaquith House site at 161 Concord Road, Billerica, MA, in relation to the Town Common historic district, http://www.town.billerica.ma.us/documentcenter/view/265〕 The saltbox-style structure was moved across the state line, to New Hampshire, and re-assembled on 12 acres in rural Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Gilmanton resident Douglas Towle restored it by 2010, then sold it as a private dwelling, with additional reconstructions, such as a barn typical of the 1700-1800s and an old schoolhouse and corn crib.〔Restoration Process for Farley Garrison House, at 1246 Province Rd, Gilmanton, NH 03237, featuring Douglas Towle, http://www.nhhomemagazine.com/May-June-2012/Relocating-history/〕 Sometimes mis-labeled as a Pilgrim house (referring to the Plymouth colony), its original owner was instead a Puritan inside the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1653, George Farley built the westernmost portion of the structure. Farley was a clothier, farmer, and heavily involved in the Puritan-run meeting house in Billerica. A plaque still remains, placed on the town common in 1901 by the Billerica Historical Society, which says, "Here stood the first meetinghouse, erected 1660." The plaque then quotes the Town Records, using the spelling of the time, agreeing to build a thatch-roofed meeting house "this winter folling: thirty foote longe & foure foot wide & twelve foote high and the studs to be 3 foot asunder. The Comittee apoynted to agre with the workmen to build & finish said house are Ralph Hill Senr, George Farley, Jonathan Danforth"〔Town Plaque, Farley involved in meeting house, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Historical_plaques_%28Billerica%2C_Massachusetts%29_-_DSC00049.jpg〕 Farley was also elected a town selectman. He was the third-largest financial contributor to the town and church in the tax records of 1663-1664, when Samuel Whiting was minister, though only an average assessment would be made against his estate in 1679. Colorful in his old age, however, he was fined once in 1674 for skipping church in order to attend Baptist services in Boston one Sunday with two neighbors, Thomas Foster and William Hamlet (also written as Hamlit and Hamblett), with Hamlet repeatedly fined for doing this.〔 Middlesex County Court Records, Vol. III, p. 35〕 Some thought George's visit showed his support for religious tolerance, seen also in the varied religious choices of descendants, who were buried in various Protestant cemeteries ranging from Presbyterian in California to Methodist in Missouri. However, others proclaimed that his visit meant he was an early Baptist dissident from the state Congregationalist (Puritan) church, and declared him a member of the First Baptist Church in Boston〔http://www.fulkerson.org/farley.html〕〔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〕 The house was used as a garrison in 1676 during King Philip's War.〔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〕 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. 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Jaquith House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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