The Italianate farmhouse at 1002 Middlebury Road in Watertown (pdf) was built in 1841 by James Bishop, on part of the Hamilton Farm, which had been purchased that year by his father, Leverett Bishop. In 1854, the property was sold to the Partree family. In 1903, the house was purchased by Rollin and Howard Cashman, who ran a dairy farm on the property for nearly 40 years. For a time, the house was operated as The Graham House Bed and Breakfast, but it is now again a residence.
Cashman Farmhouse (1841)
Leverett Bishop was my great-great-grandfather. He moved to the Washington, DC area in the 1850’s with his daughter Sarah (Bishop) Wells and her husband Joseph B. Wells, along with Leverett’s son Henry Bishop.