From Tom's Desk- Looking Back 2/10/15

“Gentlemen, I cannot but acknowledge myself obliged to you for the regard you have shown for me in the general invitation you have given me to settle in the ministry amongst you. . . I have at last concluded to accept of your call, upon condition you will grant the following. . . That the town shall take the £100 which they have voted to me towards my building in the town, and build and suitably finish a house 38 feet in length, and 18 feet in breadth, having four rooms and a garret; and also that they build a kitchen on the back side of the house: which house shall be given to me, my heirs or assigns, &c.”  Rev. Thomas Prentice to the committee chosen to bring the first settled minister to the town of Arundel (now Kennebunkport) 1730

The Olde Garrison House, Winter of 1956 and 2015