Now that we had the history of our old house back a century-and-a-half, there was still a 20-year gap of getting from Lucy M. Hooper, Anne Dodge, and Mary Roberts, who were named in the 1875 deed transfer, and the Shackford Est of the 1855 Eastport map.
Which Shackford was the Est, presumably for Estate, in the 1855 map?
It was a prolific family in town at the time.
Shackford is a name existing as three places in Eastport: a cove just south of the downtown, a head of land occupied today by a state park, and a residential street.
Just who were they?
I was already working this line from the earliest materials and trying to see if I could connect someone to the material you’ve already seen.
The central question, remember, was how far back did this house go?
It was time to take Captain John Shackford senior seriously.
Jnana's Red Barn 