[2] Its collection is entirely derived from the family, and the extensive archives, including the original diary of Elizabeth Porter Phelps, are held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The main block of the house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior.

The house next passed to Elizabeth Whiting Phelps and her husband Dan Huntington, who married in 1801; they would raise eleven children.

[3] Their youngest son, Frederic Dan Huntington (an Episcopal minister in Boston and later a bishop in Syracuse), inherited the house and would use it as a summer home.

The Porter–Phelps–Huntington House serves as an excellent lens through which to view the history of slavery in Western Massachusetts, especially in the town of Hadley.

[8] When Moses Phelps was killed in 1756 in Bloody Morning Scout, a battle at Lake George during the French and Indian War, both Zebulon and Peg were listed in the probate inventory of Porter’ possessions.

[10] The advertisement Porter and Warner together placed in the Connecticut Courant described Zebulon as having a “whitish complexion” and noted that he may “have a Squaw in company”.