| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1661/11/04 | Robert MacClaflin | Life | Robert MacClaflin is accepted as a Wenham townsman. The selectmen grant him "a percill of lande, be it more or less lying betwin Mr Fiskes farme and Richard Kimballs joining to Mr Fiskes medow provided it exceed not two acres." | |||
| 1674/00/00 | Anna Waldron Gerrish | Home | The Gerrishes move in the parsonage. The town acquired the MacClaflin property as a parsonage "For the incouragment of Mr Gerrish to setle amongst us". | |||
| 1674/01/13 | Rev Joseph Gerrish | Vocation | Rev Joseph Gerrish is ordained to succeed Antipas Newman as the third minister of the Wenham Church. Over the coming years, the town will pay Gerrish's salary in money, butter, pork, grain, oats and Indian corn. | |||
| 1674/01/25 | Daniel Claflin | Born | Joanna Warner Claflin, wife of Robert MacClaflin, gives birth to a son, Daniel Claflin, in Wenham, Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |||
| 1686/08/00 | John Dunton finds Wenham to be "An Inland Town, well stord with Men and Cattle" when he "paid a Visit to Mr Geery (Gerrish)." | |||||
| 1692/11/14 | Rev John Hale | Life | Puritan pastor of Beverly, John Hale, listens as Mary Herrick tells him that the spirit of his wife, Sarah Noyes Hale, has been afflicting her. | Salem Witch Trials | ||
| 1692/11/14 | Rev Joseph Gerrish | Home | In mid-November, Mary Herrick tells Rev Gerrish and Rev John Hale that she has been visited by the spirits of Sarah Hale and Mary Easty. Easty's ghost says that she was innocent of witchcraft and wanted vengeance. | Salem Witch Trials |
| Particulars for Claflin-Richards House: | |
|---|---|
| Architectural Style | American Colonial |
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Building Use | Clergy House: Manse, Parsonage, Rectory, Vicarage |
| Area of Significance | Commerce |
| Area of Significance | Education |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Area of Significance | Literature |
| Area of Significance | Military |
| Area of Significance | Politics-government |
| Area of Significance | Religion |
| Historic Use | Religious Property |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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