This page displays First Period, Georgian, and Federal era houses of Salisbury, Massachusetts up to the beginning of the 19th Century. The images are from the Salisbury Patriot Properties site. Click on the link to download a description of the property on the Massachusetts Historical Commission site (MACRIS). Photos are displayed alphabetically in order of street name. House numbers may have changed. Click on any image to view a larger photo.
The Town Assessor’s records indicate the house at 28 Congress Street was built ca 1785 on land previously owned by Abraham Morrill, a blacksmith and an original settler in Salisbury. In 1662, his son Isaac, also a blacksmith, inherited the land on Congress Street. The land passed to Reuben Morrill in 1730 and then his nephew, Abraham Morrill, the youngest son of Reuben’s brother Abraham, in 1777. Abraham, the nephew, served in the Revolutionary War and died in 1814. His son, also Abraham Morrill, inheirited the farm. Abraham married his wife Mary Bagley in 1802. A map of 1854 indicates Abraham Morrill was living in the house. His son Edward was born 1807 and inherited the house ca 1862.1 Edward Morrill, a farmer, and his wife Abigail lived in the house on the Plains in 1872. By 1912 the house had become the residence of John Mudge, a farmer. In 1918 two boarders are listed as residing with John Mudge, Cornelia Mudge, and James Hooper, a farmhand. In the 1933-4 and 1944-6 Directories the owner of 28 Congress Street was Miss Bertha C Mudge.
The True house, 67 Lafayette Rd., Salisbury MA (1806): This house is not listed at the MACRIS site, indicating that the local Historical Commission has not provided information to the state. The date 1806 is listed at the Salisbury assessors Patriot Properties site. The 1854 Salisbury map shows Jabez True or Samuel True at this location. The Trues were a well-established family in Salisbury with a history going back to the 1600s. The names Samuel and Jabez were used by multiple branches of the True family at the same time. The Salem Deeds site shows that Samuel True made several purchases of property in the late 1790s in Salisbury.
17th & 18th Century Houses of Essex County, Massachusetts 