Elisha was one of the 'Minute Men of Lexington. He moved thither in 1779, one of the first settlers. He was a carpenter and master builder. The house still stands in good condition. The rooms are built around a central chimney.
All rooms have large fireplaces.
The only hall is a short hallway across the front of the house, only large enough to permit of stairway to the second floor. The original barn still shelters a dairy herd. There are fine apple orchards on this farm, and from the orchard at the back of the house a wide, sweeping view of the White Mountains is seen. Later Jesse, son of Elisha, lived in this house. Elisha, who being granted by his father's will a lot of 74 acres of wild lands in the northeast part of Amherst.