Location
The County of Lennox and Addington - Loyalist
In Bath, on the west side of town, on the south side of Main Street (Highway 33) across from Country Club Drive at street number 535
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
May 28, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
This house, the oldest in the Bay of Quinte district, was built about 1785 by Captain Jeptha Hawley (1740-1813), a Loyalist from Arlington, Vermont. The Hawleys, an old Connecticut family, had sent several representatives, including Jeptha's father, to the legislature of that colony. Jeptha joined the Royal Standard in 1776, served under General Burgoyne and was later in charge of Loyalist refugees at Machiche, Quebec. In 1784 he settled here in Ernesttown Township. The stone portion of this building was added between 1787 and 1799 as quarters for the Rev. John Langhorn, the district's first resident Anglican clergyman.
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