The Root House
Concord Journal, June 30, 1938
This picture was bought by Mrs. Root at the auction of the effects of Edmund Hosmer’s daughters. Mrs. Root’s house on Sandy Pond Road [the current 82 Sandy Pond Road] contains the little house built by the Prescotts, the larger house is no longer standing.
The Prescott family was founded in Concord by Dr. Jonathan, who married Elizabeth Hoar and lived next to the burying ground on Main Street; his son, Major Jonathan (also a doctor), who married Rebecca, “the amiable and only daughter of Peter Bulkeley, Esq.”; his son Dr. Abel Prescott, who married Abigail Brigham and lived on Lexington Road where the John Moore house is. They had ten children, including Dr. Samuel, who brought the news from Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775; Luck, who married Jonathan Fay; and John, who married Grace Potter in 1765 and lived in the little house shown in this picture.
Samuel Potter Prescott, son of John, born in 1769, married Elizabeth Brown in 1795, and their son, Nathan Prescott, also lived here. In 1828 Nathan Prescott sold the farm to Edmund Hosmer, who built the large house shown in the lower picture.
In 1853 George Everett bought from Edmund Hosmer who moved to Lowell Road. In 1870 Everett sold to William H. Devens, who sold it to Asa Calef.