John F. Ellsworth's lot
oon after Asa Cole acquired his one-acre lot just south of Dorman's property, Abraham Wagener sold another acre along the west side of Main Street to a man named John F. Ellsworth. This occurred in September 1817. It seems clear that Ellsworth wanted to build a store on the lot, and perhaps he did, since he only paid $150 for the lot, and only five years later the place sold for $1200. Ellsworth's deed of sale was never recorded, and neither was the next deed of sale, by Ellsworth's grantee. This was a man named Amasa Holden, a cabinet-maker of surpassing skill.
Holden sold the property in 1819, and everyone agrees his shop and dwelling were in a building on this lot; so far it can't be determined whether Ellsworth or Holden built it. In any case, Holden sold it to William Babcock, and he to Samuel Babcock (possibly his brother) in 1823.
Samuel Babcock sold it to John and Robert Rumney, and they, in 1830, to Henry Welles. Welles added a 12-foot strip in 1836, which he purchased from Asa Cole who owned the property to the north; he added to his lot again in 1866 with a right-of-way from James Armstrong, who by then owned the property next door on the north side. Welles, his widow and then his heirs kept the property and the beautiful house he built on it until it was sold in 1888 to Laura Struble. It was the latter who split off the two flanking parcels in 1898, the first subdivision of this lot since its first sale by Abraham Wagener in 1817.
The lot shown in yellow was sold by Wagener to John F. Ellsworth, who sold it rather quickly to Amasa Holden, the cabinet maker. Holden lived here and had a shop on the same lot. The property came into the hands of Henry Welles in 1830; he built the house now standing at #306 and his successors sold two parcels north and south of it just before the turn of the 20th century.
Wagener sold this large commercial lot to John F. Ellsworth. Henry Welles
built his house there in 1830 and later two other lots were made from the
property.
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