In 1787 Nathaniel Hobart, who had received a deed for 3000 acres of timberland and one sawmill, called the "Brisk Mill," on Dennys River, from his father Colonel Aaron Hobart, came to Township X, bought out Samuel Scott, built a house, and settled there. To encourage his son, who was described as "a man of sensibility, taste, and considerable good style," Colonel Aaron, as the Proprietor of the township, acquired a house being dismantled on the High Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and had it re-erected on the bank above the Dennys River near the site of an old Acadian House which had burned a few years before, in 1785. In 1796 Nathaniel Hobart sold his land to Phineas Bruce, an eminent lawyer from Machias (acting on behalf of the Lincolns), and went to Charleston, S.C. where he taught in an academy for many years. In 1830 the Lincolns sold the house to William Wood, a deputy sheriff in Washington County, who later transferred it to Nelson S. Allan in 1853. The Allans owned the property throughout the rest of the nineteenth century, eventually passing it on to the Sylvia family, from whom the current owners acquired it in 1969.

Contemporary Photographs of the Dennys River AreaPhotos for Map

Nathaniel Hobart House and Barn, Edmunds, in the 19th century.