In 1786 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, (across from Theodore Lincoln's house) erected 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 taken down on the High Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and had it re-erected on the bank above the Dennys River near the site of a 1688 Acadian House which had burned shortly before, in 1785. In December 1795 Nathaniel Hobart sold his land to Phineas Bruce, an eminent lawyer from Machias (acting quietly on behalf of General Benjamin Lincoln), and went to Charleston, S.C. where he taught in an academy for many years. In 1829 the Lincolns sold the house to William Wood, a cloth dresser and a deputy sheriff in Washington County, who later transferred it to Nelson S. Allan in 1857. The Allans owned the property throughout the rest of the nineteenth century, eventually passing it on to the Sylvia family, (of Edmunds) from whom the current owners acquired it in 1970.

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