tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423905596815645843.post6886697594682201250..comments2020-08-11T08:42:00.570-07:00Comments on musings: Our Montville houseWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04110574520902607535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423905596815645843.post-66899777339330749132007-10-30T12:24:00.000-07:002007-10-30T12:24:00.000-07:00Sian and Mary Jane,Thank you for your comments.May...Sian and Mary Jane,<BR/>Thank you for your comments.<BR/>Maybe someday there will be a book.<BR/>It was not owned by the Peaveys when those pictures were taken.<BR/> To answer your questions. Yes, we met Basil Peavy who lived in Bath who was born and lived there until 1942 or so when the property was sold by the town for taxes. Basil died about two years ago.<BR/>We are still in contact with the man who was the owner when these photographs were taken.<BR/>We know it was built in 1843 by James Burns of Washington, Maine. We always thought it was built for the Peaveys but some research that I did this summer shows that it was probably built for Ira True. True sold it to William Peavey, the great grandfather of Basil, in 1850.<BR/>We didn't ask what happened to the dogs, for fear of knowing the worst, but I am sure they were humainly treated.<BR/>The old matting, I have been told by a museum curator, is Chinese, and was often imported in the 18th and 19th centuries for such use. The house of George Washington at Mt. Vernon has similiar matting on some of its floors.<BR/>The posting is not totally complete (it just takes me so long to write something) and I intend to finish the story that we did indeed purchase the property and we are still in the throes of its consolidation.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110574520902607535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423905596815645843.post-12376614888968193662007-10-30T07:11:00.000-07:002007-10-30T07:11:00.000-07:00Hi Will -I'm a friend of Mary Jane's and she told ...Hi Will -<BR/>I'm a friend of Mary Jane's and she told me about your blog and the pictures of Mr. Peavy's house. Did you ever meet any of his relatives? I am curious as to how long he lived by himself there. I live in Belfast but love all the old things, all the old houses, the old ways, that you saw. I wonder what happened to his dogs? <BR/><BR/>My camp - which is over a hundred years old, in northern Maine, has the same woven grass "carpeting" as one of the upstairs bedroom photos. I wonder who made it and where it came from? It's wonderful stuff to walk on, if delicate.<BR/><BR/>Great photos - you know what you're doing. Thank you for posting it. Did you ever find a house in Maine that wasn't too sacry to take on? Maybe I read too fast but I didn't catch that you had.....sianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05643658731960085740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423905596815645843.post-61732662815140201492007-10-30T04:33:00.000-07:002007-10-30T04:33:00.000-07:00Wow! Amazing pictures! I wish they were a book, I ...Wow! Amazing pictures! I wish they were a book, I want to look at them at length. I love the document of how Mr.Peavy left everything, how he slept in the parlor, and had a checkered tablecloth!<BR/><BR/>I'm a "cyber" friend of Eliza, who lives in Searsmont. We had the 2nd oldest house in town, which horribly burned down in 2003. We built on the same land, a cement house!mary janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08301321987086186671noreply@blogger.com