~ ITHAMAR BRIGHAM HOMESTEAD ~
Picture taken by John Buczek - 2000Ithamar Brigham House
From Ella Bigelow's Book
Coming down Pleasant St., we find Ithamar, son of Capt. Ithamar and Ruth (Ward), who married Catherine Barnes, daughter of Solomon and Judith Barnes, and built a substantial house near Maplewood cemetery which was laid out in later years on some land belonging to the above estate. Here in 1783 Ithamar and Catherine lived in peace and prosperity.
The War of the Revolution had passed and Marlborough had regained her domestic life and had settled down to the prosperity which little by little had come to her. Seven children were born to Catherine and Ithamar, among whom were. Moses and Eli. The former, six years older than his brother, soon set the matrimonial example by marrying Miss Susan Fosgate, of Berlin, setting up housekeeping in his new home at Crane Meadow. Moses seemed to be the favored nephew of his Uncle Silas, who married Persis Stowe of Southborough, and so all the personal property of the latter came to the Crane Meadow home- the old grandfather clock, the pewter plates, the lovely pink cups, the curtains patched and darned by Aunt Persis herself, the big pink dish which held the wedding cake for Moses and his bride; the pillow-cases spun from the very flax Aunt Persis raised, and the wonderful old pewter tankard used at communion table in the old Southborough church - for Silas kept bees and the old tankard made a most convenient receptacle for the honey they made.
The above picture is of a water color of the house done by Ellen Carpenter a Boston Artist.
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