Nathaniel Hobart House, Edmunds, Maine
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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.
![Nathaniel Hobart House in Edmunds; View of the first proprietor's house in Edmunds. It was moved from Newburyport, Massachusetts by Col. Aaron Hobart of Abbington, Massachusetts, as a home for his son Nathaniel, after purchasing the Township in 1786. On this site an old Acadian house, erected in 1688, had burned in 1785, while being occupied by the Widow Oliver and her family, who then removed to New Brunswick. The Hobart house originally had a third story gambrel roof and lantern, which was removed in the late 1820's, after being purchased by the Lincolns.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/9956/97f8f3b0-f333-11ed-bd12-cd42b574e64b-ufvd3iO.lg@2x.jpg)