William Bevin House (1757)

One of the oldest houses in East Hampton is the colonial saltbox at 53 Barton Hill Road. It was erected circa 1748-1757 by William Bevin, who died in 1793 at the age of 83. The property was maintained by William’s son Isaac Bevin, Sr. (1746-1791) and grandson Isaac Bevin, Jr. (1773-1870), who married Anna Avery of Glastonbury in 1800. In 1832, their sons, William, Chauncy and Abner, later joined by a fourth brother Philo, started Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company, a bell foundry that is still in business today.

Samuel Nettleton House (1814)

Daniel Nettleton (1766-1829) and his wife Eunice Baldwin Nettleton came from Milford in about 1789 and settled in the town of Washington in an area that came to be called Nettleton Hollow. Across from the original Nettleton homestead, their son Samuel (1791-1852) built the house at 230 Nettleton Hollow Road in in 1814. He moved into the new house while his parents and his brother, Lyman Nettleton, remained in the old homestead, which stood until it was taken down in 1867 by Samuel’s nephew, Treat Nettleton, who moved into an octagon house built for him nearby. The Samuel Nettleton House remained in the family for well over a century and a half.

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31 Chaplin Street, Chaplin (1830)

The building at 31 Chaplin Street in Chaplin is an interesting composite structure, made up of what were once three separate buildings. They were brought together to form the current house in 1936. The earliest section was a mercantile store, erected between 1830 and 1832 by Edward Eaton. The next section was a tin shop, erected in the 1840s. It was operated by Alexander Dorrance, who most likely used the store building as his residence. The largest part of the current building was built as a school house, c. 1850. When these three buildings were joined, the school section was raised to be two stories, thus giving the completed structure a classic saltbox profile. The building is described under the heading “Rindge-Dorrance Tin Shop, c. 1840” on p. 15 of the pamphlet Historic Homes of Chaplin Village, by Johanne Philbrick. It is listed in the Chaplin Historic District as “Eaton’s Store” with a date of 1850.

Ambrose Hine House (1760)

Ambrose Hine acquired land at what is now 118 Cook Road in Prospect, c.1755-1757. The property record card for the Ambrose Hind House lists a date of 1760. The house does not appear in land records until 1794. Ambrose Hine (born 1726) served in the Revolutionary War as captain of the 5th battalion in James Wadsworth’s Brigade, which was with Washington at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. Highland Greens Golf Course in Prospect is located on land that Capt. Hine once farmed and he built many of the stone walls that survive on the property.