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Sargent=Murray=Gilman=Hough House Association Crfc SZ. 19MI Sargent=Murray=Gilman=Hough House Association 1941 Gloucester CAPE ANN TICKET AND LABEL COMPANY GLOUCESTER. MASSACHUSETTS 19 4 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 1 Reccrd of Title 6 Agreement of Association 7 Charter 9 Amendment to Charter 11 By-Laws of Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough House Ass'n .... 12 Amendments to By-Laws 15 Organization 17 Membership 18 Report of Treasurer for fiscal year ending August 31, 1940 23 Collections Entrance Hall, First Floor and Main Staircase 25 Sargent Room, First Floor 27 Small Sargent Room on First Floor 37 Office of the Secretary 43 Main Dining-Room 45 Side Hall on First Floor 46 Side Hall on Second Floor 46 Side Hall on Third Floor 46 Gilman Room, Second Floor 46 Plumer-Burnham Room, Second Floor 48 Library, or John Sargent Room 50 Universalist-Hough Room, Second Floor 53 Parsons Room, Second Floor 58 Large Room, Third Floor 60 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Judith Sargent House Frontispiece Main Staircase 26 Palladian Window on Main Staircase 28 Sargent Room, First Floor 30 Universalist-Hough Room, Second Floor 54 The Illustrations are from photographs taken by Samuel Chamberlain, Esq., of Marblehead and made available by his courtesy. THE JUDITH SARGENT HOUSE FOREWORD The Board of Managers, at a meeting in 1940, decided that there were several reasons for gathering into accessible form the records of the organization and of the acquisitions of the Judith Sargent House, together with an occasional illustration of the House itself. The Board felt that, as a modest booklet, such a record might be acceptable and useful to the Convention of the Universalist Church to be held in Gloucester in 1941. It also felt that such a record, widely distributed, might preserve the House for future genera­ tions more surely than continued reliance on its freedom from the vicissitudes of human affairs and the hazards of destruction. The House has stood for more than one hundred and fifty years—at first, as one among many, but latterly as a rare example of a day that was more civilized than the present. It was built midway between the beginnings of the Town and today. The history of its site goes back to the 1640's when the land, on which the House is built, was known as "Ashley's Lott"—about two acres, extending from the water's edge, on the Harbor, to what is now Middle Street. Title passed from Thomas Ashley to Thomas Millward to Isabel Babson, all three early settlers, and remained in the Babson family for a century and a half. The next owner was John Stevens, first husband of Judith Sargent, for whose use her father, Winthrop Sargent, bought the land and built the House. Judith Sargent married, for her second husband, the Reverend John Murray, the first preacher of Uni­ versalism in this country, and the House was their home while they lived in Gloucester. The history of the House continues with its sale by the heirs of Winthrop Sargent to Frederick Gilman in 1797 and proceeds with the sale by the latter's heirs to Benjamin Kent Hough in 1801. Then the ownership of the House divides for a time: the West­ erly portion was sold by the Houghs to the Stanwoods who passed it on by inheritance and eventually by sale to the Plumers. The Plumers then sold their portion to Miss Bunce. The Easterly portion was sold by the Houghs to the Sanfords, from whom the passing of the title to the same Miss Bunce, under her married name of Shaw, brought the two portions of the original property back again to a single owner. From her daughter and heir, Mrs. French, title came to the Universalist General Convention and the present Sargent-Murray- Gilman-Hough House Association and finally the complete title to the Association alone.* In 1915 it was expected that the House would be dismantled for its fine interiors and demolished. From this fate it was saved by the imagination and energy of the Reverend Levi Moore Powers, D. D., sometime Minister of the Independent Christian Church of Gloucester (Universalist). He was assisted in the project by his Church and by its Con­ vention and amongst others of the Sargent family—especially by two descendants of the Winthrop Sargent (1727-1793) who built the House, Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927) and Winthrop Sargent (1853-1932). He received the assistance, too, of Harvard Alumni, interested because of the association of the House with the Reverend Samuel Gilman (1791-1858), author of the song, "Fair Harvard." The principal sponsor of this group was William Sumner Apple- ton, '96. Aid was generously given also by many of the residents of Gloucester who desired to preserve the House for the greater honor of their city, and very many of whom were related by blood or marriage to the families associated with the House. The House, the land on which it stands, and the land imme­ diately adjacent, on the upper or Middle Street level, were first acquired, then the buildings and land on the lower or Main Street level. Next the several buildings on that level were demolished. * See page 6 for Record of Title. the level cleared, the old terraces revealed and renewed, over which the House looked again on Fore Street, as Main Street was called when the House was built. The restoration of the grounds and gardens with the planting was directed by Professor Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927) head of the Arnold Arboretum, assisted by Joseph Everett Chandler of Boston, in his professional capacity, and aided by members of the Sargent family—Miss Georgianna Welles Sargent of Lenox, with an occasional inspection by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and his sisters Emily (1857-1936) and Mrs. Francis Ormond (Violet Sargent). The exterior and interior of the House proper received the attention of the many interested members of the Sargent and Hough families, the Reverend and Mrs. Powers, many citizens of Gloucester, and members of the Board of Managers of the Asso­ ciation, under the general direction and advice of Winthrop Sar­ gent (1853-1932). In view of the loose application of the word "restorations" to imaginary and pseudo-authentic reconstructions it is well to rec­ ognize that both the exterior and interior of the House have come from the past in their original form and that "restoration," in this case and in homely phrase, has been merely "repainting." The wallpapers are not, however, original but were designed after the style of those uncovered by the removal of successive layers. The Entrance Portico, opening into the Entrance Hall, from which the Staircase rises with its carved balustrade to emphasize a magnificent Palladian window are all recorded by the illustra­ tions which the Board has ordered included. The panelling of the mantles, the fireplaces with their pillars and pediments are also shown. The illustrations speak for them­ selves.* * The Illustrations are from photographs taken by Samuel Cham­ berlain, Esq., of Marblehead and made available by his courtesy. The House has a spiritual interest for many. To Universalists it was, as has been said, the home of John Murray (1741-1815), the first minister to preach Universalism in this country. He came to Gloucester in 1774, at the urging of Winthrop Sargent (1727-1793) and made Gloucester his home until appointed Chaplain on the 17th of September, 1775, to the Rhode Island Regiments, Continental Army. From this post he returned in 1776, in ill health, after some eight months in service. Shortly thereafter began the struggle to establish Universalism, which struggle continued until the passing of the Act of Incor­ poration on the 28th of June, 1792. In this task took part, in Murray's behalf, many of the families whose names are associated with the House—Sargent, Hough, Babson, Plumer, Somes, Par­ sons and Pearce and many others whose names are associated with its preservation. It is a commonplace to say that the legal proceedings invoked confirmed to all religious denominations an equality of liberty by freeing one from taxation for the benefit of another. Murray's adherents recognized the responsibility they carried when they said through the words of Epes Sargent (1748-1822), "Providence has so ordered it that we should, in the first instance, be called upon to contend for those religious liberties preserved by our excellent Constitution." * For the several families connected with the House and the followers of the Rev. John Murray, specific rooms have been ded­ icated, wherein are placed the Collections of the Association per­ taining to the respective interest, as will be seen below. The Catalogue of the Collections does not list each and every item, particularly where the generic term can be considered reason­ ably descriptive, as in the case of the Downes Collection of pitchers and the two Collections of Sargent silhouettes. It is, however, expected that it is sufficiently detailed to call attention to many * "An Appeal to the Impartial Public by the Society of Christian Independents Congregating in Gloucester," by Epes Sargent. Page 31. Copy in Plumer-Burnham Room. pieces that might otherwise be overlooked and it is also hoped that its data will be found accurate and authoritative. The Board of Managers has felt that there might be added, appropriately, their statement of their responsibility: They wish to maintain the House and its properties so as to preserve an original record for the general interest of the residents of Gloucester and their guests, and for the special interest of the families connected with the House, and for the special interest, again, of the members of the Independent Christian Church.
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