Talk:Samuel Symonds (1595 - 1678)/@comment-173.48.81.203-20190707144305

Samuel Symonds did not own the mansion on Castle Hill. He owned the land known as Castle Hill between 1644 and 1660, but he lived on land nearby that is now known as Argilla Farm which is on Argilla Rd. His house, built in 1637, is long gone and from the description he wrote of it himself, was fairly modest in size. See https://historicipswich.org/argilla-farm/

"The house described is one or two rooms wide and one room deep, two stories in height, with a full cellar, central doorways and stairways, and wood chimneys on either side. "

The mansion on Castle Hill was built centuries later, in 1928, by Richard T Crane. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_T._Crane and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_(Ipswich,_Massachusetts)