Homes and Buildings of the Welch ancestors, listed by town.
Andover
Howarth Mill amongst the Smith and Dove mills at Dundee Park
The Massachusetts Historical Commission issued a Reconnaissance Survey Town Report of Andover in 1985 where they said "...John Howarth erected a three-story stone mill with a clerestory monitor roof in 1824 (later removed and replaced with two additional brick stories and a flat roof)."
Left: before 1884 view of the Smith and Dove mills, with the 3-story stone Howarth mill building to the right of the tall smoke stack.
Middle: after 1894 view of the same buildings, showing the modifications to the stone building.
Right: 2012 view of the old Howarth Mill building
Boston (Revere)
House built about 1680 by John Newgate's son Nathaniel on John Newgate's 262 acre farm in the current town of Revere.
Concord
Rev. Edward Bulkley's house on Main St. was moved in 1825 to its present location at 92 Sudbury Rd.
Major Peter Bulkley's house still stands at 77 Lexington Rd, although it was extensively or entirely rebuilt in 1725 by Reuben Brown and is now called the Reuben Brown House.
Guilford, Connecticut
A typical Colonial house built by one of George Hubbard's descendents in 1717 still exists on George's original home lot.
Hatfield
Front and back views of the "Isaac Hubbard ca 1700" house; and an old foundation in the back.
Hingham
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The Old Ship Church was originally the second Hingham Meeting House. The name stems from it's unique architecture: from the inside the rafters and roof look like the hull of a ship turned upside down. Peter Hobart was in charge of the project to build the Meeting House.
The Ripley Homestead on Main St. There were originally several homes here built by Ripleys. The remaining house on the left was originally built in 1692 as two distinct houses, which later were joined into one. William Ripley's house was located where the firestation is now on the right.
Marlborough
Stowe-Welch house on Spoon Hill Road where HORATION NELSON WELCH was probably living when he died. Photo on left was taken in 1970. The two photos on right taken in 2010. The right photo shows the back of the house with several modern additions.
Newburyport, Newbury, Nantucket
Left: the Coffin House ca. 1658 (Newburyport)
Center: the Dole-Little House ca. 1715 (Newbury)
Right: the "Oldest House" or Jethro Coffin House 1686 (Nantucket)
Stoddard, New Hampshire
Left: "1861 Central House, Stoddard, N. H. C. F. Welch Proprietor"
Right: 1865 photo of Stoddard looking east; on the left are the Congregational Church, the Central House, the Loomis Hadley house, the Morse shop, and the Morse house. All still remain except for Central House. Capt. Jonathan F. Sanderson first built the Loomis Hadley house around 1834, followed by a tavern and hotel next door on the west side, later known as Central House, until it was razed in 1942. The tavern bar of the Central House ended up in the Spouter Tavern at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT.
Stow
The old Gates Homestead in Stow, first owned by Stephen Gates. (Photo from the book "Silas Gates of Stow Mass.", 1907)
Sudbury
Historical road marker and two views of the Edmund Rice homestead in present day Wayland
(left view from "Historical reminiscences of the early times in Marlborough, page 157)
A drawing of the Edmund Rice home on Glover Farm,
based on the written description of the house and barn ("Puritan Village", page 93)
Watertown
George Woodword's house about 1930
Woburn
John Burbeen's house was described as 40 feet long and 20 feet wide below, 22 feet wide above, which was never painted (the drawing is taken from "An account of John Burbeen" by Joseph Burbeen Walker, 1892.)
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