115 Water Street, Thomas Jackson House

Records show that Mr. Charles Adams sold this property in 1802 for 150 pounds sterling, 6 horses, 1 yoke of oxen, 17 cattle, 1 head of sheep, 70 bales of cleaned wheat, 1 crop of corn and seven indentured servants- Hannah, Hannah the yonder, Stepheny, Violet, Ennols, Denic and Levin. ( Note: in the early 1800’s one acre of land was worth about 13 pounds sterling.) There are four fireplaces on the first floor; one a cooking fireplace and one in the front bedroom on the second floor. The exterior of the house was built with wooden sills, beams and trusses all fastened together by wooden pegs marked with Roma numerals. The exterior was beaded wooden siding and the wainscoting and exposed beams are all original.