At 62 East Main Street in Clinton, is a house built in 1783 by George Eliot, a farmer and likely a descendent of John Eliot, the seventeenth-century Puritan missionary to the Indians of Natick, Massachusetts. In the 1770s and 1780s, George Eliot was chosen moderator for a number of important town meetings in Killingworth, of which Clinton was then a part. The house, which remained for generations in the Eliot family, was later moved back from the street line when land was given to the town to straighten the road. Around that time, the building’s large central chimney was removed, a front porch, since removed, was added, and the house was altered to the Greek Revival style.
George Eliot House (1783)
As an Elliot currently living in this house, I can verify that George is the son of Jared Eliot, who was the son of Joseph Eliot, who was the son of John Eliot, the 17th century Puritan missionary to the Indians of Natick. There has been an Elliot living in the house since it was built in the late 1700’s.