D-2-6
This was James Bancroft’s second house. Timothy Bancroft of Barnstable, Massachusetts bought the Right of Benjamin French (400 acres) in the southeast quarter of Monadnock #6 early. His son, James, acquired this part of the French Right after his father’s death in 1780. In approximately 1786 he built the house here and sold D-3-11 to Samuel Warren.
James sold this place to his brother, Timothy, in 1791, and moved to Rockingham, Vermont. He and his wife died and are buried there. Timothy owned the house from 1791 to 1825 when he sold it to his youngest son, Joel. Joel and his wife, Julia, lived there until sometime after 1858. They are buried In the Island Cemetery in Harrisville. The house appears on the 1858 County Map but was described as “the late homestead of Joel Bancroft” in the Nelson Clarion in 1871.