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.