[1][2][3][4][5] The house was built before 1792[6] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, where it is listed at 153 Fairhaven Road.

[9] Deacon Luke had acquired a large tract of land in the south quarter, in the vicinity of Fairhaven Road.

Ephraim was one of the men who stored provincial supplies in his house prior to the Revolution - tents, tow cloth, canteens, etc."

"At the time of the smallpox epidemic, vaccination was a newfangled idea; many people thought it was dangerous.

When Ephraim's wife died of smallpox in 1792, it was thought to be important to engrave on her headstone that she had taken the disease in the natural way.

[10] Blanche E. Williams, Conservator of the Estate of George F. Wheeler to Leslie L. Keese, April 26, 1924.