Babcock served also as a general in the state militia, as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and as Westerly's first postmaster in the 1770s.

Dudley, having lost some ships in the war of 1812 and unable to pay some debts, sold the house to his distant cousin, Oliver Wells, in 1817.

Mr. Wells used it as a prosperous tenant farm, however the house was allowed to fall into disrepair.

[3] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a museum in 1972.

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