Wethersfield

Built by Josiah Wright Jr. for his son, David Wright, on Main Street in Wethersfield around 1791. David Wright was a brother of Capt. Ashbel Wright, whose house had already been built right next door, to the north.

Originally built for the father or brother of Capt. Ashbel Wright on Main Street in Wethersfield in 1766. Wright, a sea captain, was later a militiaman in the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Bunker Hill. From 1824 to 1833, the house was the home of Reverend Joseph Emerson, who ran the Female Seminary, located in the Old Academy across the street.

Dr. Ezekiel Porter bought a lot off Main Street in Wethersfield in 1743 and sometime, from the 1750s to the 1770s, he built the house that stands there today, possibly for his daughter Abigail and her husband, the merchant Thomas Belden. Their son, Ezekiel Porter Belden, served as an officer in the Dragoons during the Revolutionary War. Later, the Porter-Belden house was the home of Mary Belden and her husband, Frederick Butler, who authored the first Complete History of the United States of America (1821). Their son, Thomas Belden Butler, served as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Early in the twentieth century, the house was made into a multi-family structure. The paneling from two rooms, as well some of the family furniture, are now in the Brooklyn Museum.

Built on Hartford Avenue in Wethersfield in 1775 by Josiah Buck, Sr. for his son and daughter-in-law, Daniel Buck and Sarah Saltonstall, the sister of Silas Deane‘s second wife, Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards. The Daniel Buck House is across the street from the home of Daniel’s brother, Josiah Buck, Jr., who married Deane’s sister, Hannah. The Daniel Buck House is still in the same family. The Buck property contains many original eighteenth century outbuildings and is known as the Old Buck Farm. Now a center for art, the historic barns are home to the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. Additional land that was once part of the Buck family farm along the Wethersfield Cove are now preserved by the Great Meadows Conservation Trust.

The house built for Capt. Josiah Buck, Jr. in 1774 is in Wethersfield , where Jordan Lane intersects with Hartford Avenue. Josiah Buck was a ship master who was involved in trade with Silas Deane. In 1775, he married Deane’s sister, Hannah. He lived across Hartford Ave. from his brother, Daniel Buck, who married Silas Deane’s sister-in-law, Sarah Saltonstall.