Major Jotham Tower had the year before I came here [1799] built the same tavern house, in the same style of architecture that remains to the present day, for Ebenezer Hale, and an elegant two-story frame house across the road for 'Squire Oliver Norton. Jotham was young, industrious and an ambitious masterbuilder.
Somewhat of a jealousy and strife existed for some years between the Center and the Huddle. The large schoolhouse with a swing partition where they had school meetings and town meetings was burned. The Baptists generously offered them the use of their house for a part of the time, as they did not have steady preaching. But the Center came to the Huddle very little. They met in Deacon Oliver Norton's house and sometimes in E. Hale's chambers. Some weak sisters and brothers, too, could not bear that very well as that room had sometimes been used for dancing.
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