In this woodland before settlement there had been a small piece of meadow by the Pond as described in the Churchill deed. Some patches of this meadow grass are still growing. This was a treeless area with rich soil and some moisture. The Pond could supply water for cattle and crops, a supply of which was necessary for any husbandman to succeed. Perhaps it can be said that the ponds supplied a source of food from the abundant fish available which could be caught in great quantity. There was also an ice house near the shore of the Pond in the old photographs. If the settlers took time for bathing and swimming it would be delightful. There is now an oil painting on canvas in the house showing the house and surroundings from a distance in the east front. This was painted by Alonzo Warren in 1884. Its many colors with full sky and a glimpse of South Pond give it a landscape effect. In an article that appeared in the _Boston Sunday Globe_ Magazine of November 19, 1972, Jeff Wylie wrote about archaeological diggings in old Plymouth. He indicates that Dr. James Deetz, Assistant Director of Plimoth Plantation and professor of anthropology at Brown University has a hypothesis that three periods of culture emerged. In the first period, 1620-1660, yeomen were predominant, conservative in customs and deeply rooted in the medieval tradition. From 1660-1760 an Anglo-American culture began to emerge. “It was a typical folk culture, so resistant to change that in the rural areas of New England it persisted until past the middle of the 18th century.” The third period from 1760 through 1835 was one in which the impact of the Renaissance, in the form of the Georgian tradition finally reached the deep countryside of New England. The reign of George I began in 1714 and the elite of that period built houses of the type known as Georgian, but it was not until the latter half of the century that the medieval tradition in the rural areas began to give way to the new style. In a conversation I had with Susan Burgess during her visit here in 1962 she pointed out that the dwelling house was not the conventional farm type house but rather traced its design to Georgian influences in England of a slightly earlier period. I believe her evaluation to have been a correct one. The main part of the house is two full stories with attic above and has a plain Georgian classic simplicity. By 1769, the date of the building of the house, such a design was culturally possible. Those who are familiar with Eleazer Wheelock and the founding of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N. H., are aware that the year 1769 also marks that date. The present weather vane on the barn depicts Eleazer Wheelock, the Indian Ocean, the old pine, the barrel of rum in the starting of the college. [Illustration]