The Thomas Wells House was built as a saltbox house in 1774 on Wolcott Hill Road in Wethersfield. When viewed from the front, the house’s chimney is not visible. Capt. Thomas Wells was on the building committee for Wethersfield’s First Congregational Church.
Dr. John Hull built a house around 1764 in Cheshire next to the house, built around the same time, of his brother, Dr. Amos Hull. Both brothers married sisters from the Hitchcock family. The two houses are very similar in design and both were recently threatened with demolition until the developers who had acquired both properties agreed to restore the Colonial era homes. The John Hull House is also known as the Judge Hincks House
Dr. Daniel Lathrop, who operated the first apothecary in Norwich, died in 1782 and left an endowment of £500 for the establishment of a free school in Norwich, with the condition that it remain in session eleven months of the year. Built of brick in 1783, the school is located on East Town Street, off Norwichtown Green. The Daniel Lathrop School stands next to the shop of Joseph Carpenter, built in 1772.
Built around 1785, the Humphrey Pratt Tavern in Old Saybrook was a stage stop between New York and Boston and housed Saybrook’s first post office. There is also an attached ell containing a ballroom. The Marquis de Lafayette stayed at the Tavern in 1824. Humphrey Pratt, who also built a house in 1785 for Saybrook’s minister, Frederick William Hotchkiss, was a brother of Deacon Timothy Pratt, whose house stands nearby, and the Tavern remained in the family until 1943. The building also had an adjacent general store, built in 1790, which was later moved down the street and is now the James Pharmacy and Soda Fountain.
The Caleb Stone House was built in 1749, at the corner of Broad and River Streets, on the property which had been the homelot of William Leete, one of the original settlers of Guilford. Leete was a leader in Guilford and went on to become governor of the New Haven Colony and then of the Connecticut Colony, which had absorbed New Haven. While he was governor of the staunchly Puritan New Haven Colony in 1661, Leete sheltered Whalley and Goffe, two of the regicides, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I and were being hunted by the Restoration government. A barn behind the Stone House stands over the cellar where the regicides hid for three days. Caleb Stone Jr. and his wife, Rebecca Evarts, bought the property in 1715 and later built his saltbox home, which was lived in by members of the Stone family until 1955.
The brick home of Samuel Dix in Wethersfield was built in 1780, or perhaps earlier in 1764, on Wolcott Hill Road near Wells Road. The house, which was also known as the Leonard Dix House, remained in the Dix family into the twentieth century. The interior was later completely altered from the original arrangement.
One of the historic structures on Jordan Green in Waterford is the 1740 Jordan Schoolhouse, the oldest surviving public building in Waterford. The earliest mention of a schoolhouse in Jordan actually dates to 1737. The present schoolhouse building was converted into a private home in the mid-nineteenth century for the widow Eliza Gallup and her three children. The building’s granite front steps came originally from the nineteenth-century West Neck Schoolhouse. The Jordan Schoolhouse was moved to Jordan Green in 1972 and is now a museum run by the Waterford Historical Society.