Jehiel Hale House (1795)

At 1696 Main Street in Glastonbury is a center-chimney house built circa 1795 for Jehiel Hale, who had married his cousin Mercy Hale the year before. The property was deeded to Jehiel by his father Theodore Hale in 1797. A later Hale to live in the house was William Turner Hale, a well-known farmer who also had an ice business. William Turner Hale father, Hezekiah Hale, was a sailor who sailed around the world three times and was on the whaling trip made famous in Richard Henry Dana‘s book Two Years Before the Mast (1840).